Word: suites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, the U.S. Tax Court rendered a decision that should delight many a U.S. scholar. In a suit brought by a Guggenheim fellow who did not like the idea of paying a $178 tax on his $1,000 grant, the court ruled: such grants are not income but gifts; no tax need be paid...
...position: every one of its competitors pays RCA handsome royalties on just about every set they turn out. Though most of them are unhappy with the arrangement, they have been unable to do much about it. Last week the Justice Department decided to have a try, filed an antitrust suit in Manhattan's District Court...
...Government's suit did not accuse RCA of monopolizing actual manufacture of radio-TV sets. It was aimed at what Justice called RCA's "package licensing" system, under which manufacturers must buy the use of all the patents instead of selected ones. Said Assistant Attorney General Stanley Barnes: "We seek to create conditions under which RCA's competitors . . . compete with it ... from research laboratories to the end product...
...quick to reply. It noted that the Government attacked its cross-licensing agreements in a 1930 monopoly suit that was withdrawn after RCA agreed to offer the patents to all its rivals on a royalty basis. In 1942 the Government went to court to get the earlier agreement revoked so it could sue all over again, but failed. Earlier this year the Justice Department joined General Electric in an attack on RCA's licensing arrangements, but the suit was dismissed...
...course," Lamb now claims to be a political independent, campaigned for Dewey in '48 and Stevenson in '52. In his home town, the independent Toledo Blade has been grudgingly inclined to side with him: "Mr. Lamb has always seemed to us to trim his sails to suit his own advantage . . . And we will grant that one has to get up very early in the morning to get the better of him in anything. But a Communist? Bunk!" Lamb has offered a $10,000 reward for anyone who can prove he was directly or indirectly a Communist Party member...