Word: suits
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...idea of general examinations. Lowell turned to the graduate schools. The Medical School was the first to think favorably of his plan and accordingly, in 1911, the graduating class there took the first compulsory generals in University history. The next year the Divinity School followed suit, and two years later, convinced by enthusiastic reports from the two graduate schools, the undergraduate department of History, Government, and Economics began to require generals. Within ten years, President Lowell was able to report with evident satisfaction that all departments except Chemistry and Engineering were requiring some kind of comprehensive exam before awarding...
...least $107,935.07 in employer bribes, leasing valuable union property to Hutcheson kinsmen at token rates, spending union funds in efforts to bribe state officials to quash the bribery indictment, dipping into the multimillion-dollar "special organizing" fund for uncounted amounts, destroying union records of the takings. The suit demanded court protection for the complaining members and their local union (Local 101, Baltimore) against the Carpenter practice of strong-arming down all opposition, begged the court to set a receivership over Carpenter property to run the union's affairs...
...through several affiliates. Recently, it merged three into one company, Consolidated Electronics, which starts out with $90 million in sales. In 1958 the Antitrust Division cited Philips among a dozen companies accused of freezing smaller U.S. TV manufacturers out of the Canadian market. Philips also has a suit against the U.S. charging that the AEC infringed Philips' Enrico Fermi patents taken out in long-ago 1934-39 and covering aspects of radioisotope production. Both suits are still pending...
...grounds to invoke the untidy one of adultery, named one "Mrs. J.R." as corespondent. To Tycoon Onassis, Tina's legal blockbuster came as a "surprise." For Soprano Maria Callas, 36,, for weeks in print as a friend of Onassis, and separated from Italian Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, the suit triggered a quick conference with Onassis in Monte Carlo. Then Maria flew back to her villa in Milan, pleading innocence of any and all storm-brewing. But who was the shadowy Mrs. J.R., accused by Tina of being Onassis' great and good friend on a semi-global scale over...
Last week Cheek announced yet another innovation. Starting in January, his museum will be open from 8 to 10 five evenings a week, as well as in the daytime. "Now, amazingly enough," Cheek beamed, "for the first time in the world, a museum will suit its visiting hours to the convenience of the citizens it serves...