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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charitable trusts cannot be sued by just anyone; unlike the usual trust, the beneficiary is the public and it falls on the Attorney General to bring suit. He may sue on his own initiative or give private citizens the use of his name; in either case, it is a discretionary matter. Nine Association members and Godfrey Lowell Cabot '88 prepared to ask Attorney General Fingold for permission to hall Harvard into Court. Support of this suit, in fact, was the immediate point of the Association. Numbering roughly 600, its members reflect twenty-eight states, D. C. and Canada. Officers...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Arboretum: Dry Leaves and Discontent | 10/21/1954 | See Source »

...Association, unconvinced, had no choice but to appeal to the courts. They could not sue Harvard themselves, nor force the Attorney General to do so; yet their strongest feeling has been that some judicial test is necessary. The case of John S. Ames et al.V.Attorney General, therefore , is for a writ of Mandamus to compel Fingold to rehear their application according to "a proper appreciation of his own duty and the rules of law applicable to the questions involved "Meanwhile there were still quiet efforts to smooth out affairs. Two Association directors had been meeting with Harvard officials, and once...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Arboretum: Dry Leaves and Discontent | 10/21/1954 | See Source »

...play called Dirty Hands. Since then, Sartre has changed camps, is now a faithful member in good standing of a Communist braintrust known as the World Peace Council. Last week Turncoat Sartre cried havoc because Dirty Hands was presented at Vienna's Volkstheater. He threatened to sue to keep the curtain from rising, but the play opened as scheduled, naturally proved to be a smash hit, was climaxed by a 30-minute ovation from the audience, which gave the cast 25 curtain calls. Squirming as if he had no exit, Sartre moaned: "I don't disavow Dirty Hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...apartment-building corporations formed under 608 prohibit unearned income (i.e., windfalls) from being handed out to shareholders, said Housing Boss Albert M. Cole. The firms that did so, declared Cole, were in default of their guarantee agreements ; therefore. FHA had the right to take control of them and sue for recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Fresh Dirt | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...bill, some headline writers said, outlawed Reds. Others were of the opinion that it outlawed the Communist Party. There was some speculation about what "to outlaw" might mean. Did it mean, as some said, that the Communist Party and/or its members could not sign leases, have bank accounts or sue in court? This kind of outlawry, stripping away all legal protection, is a medieval notion, inconsistent with post-feudal legal concepts and beyond the constitutional power of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Frivolity | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

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