Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Tecumseh Sherman for the U.S., and by Chief Barboncito and eleven other tribal chiefs for the Navajos. It allotted the Navajos their scrubby, brush-covered acreage along with treaty rights. Modern Navajo interpretation of the treaty: the tribe can disregard any state or federal law that does not suit its purposes. "A treaty sovereign," argues urbane Joseph F. McPherson. onetime U.S. Justice Department attorney who now works for the Navajos, "has a certain right of consent-and sometimes the Navajo just doesn't consent." Typically, Navajos in recent weeks...
Witte appealed to the Director of the State Tax Office. But the director backed up his inspector, suggested that Witte, if he was really disturbed, might pay "conscience money"-as if he were a tax evader settling up anonymously. Witte was so shocked that he filed suit in The Hague's tax court demanding that his tax be increased. But the court agreed with the tax inspector that nowhere in Dutch law is there the right to protest against undertaxation, and fined Witte 250 guilders in court costs, more than the amount in dispute...
...holiday spot in the Quetta hills, while servants crated his personal belongings and prepared the presidential palace for its new occupant. At another Karachi mansion, General Ayub (pronounced: eye-yub) strode across the lawn to meet newsmen. Out of uniform, the general was wearing a blue cord suit with a red handkerchief peeping from a breast pocket, a pastel green shirt, a striped...
...Post ran another editorial about Tycoon Wolfson. Asserting that it was doing so to avoid expensive and protracted litigation, the paper announced it was contributing $25,000 to a Wolfson charity, the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville. "On his part," said the Post, "Mr. Wolfson is withdrawing the suit without any payment...
This week, in a neat black suit and chic red velvet coat, Reporter Mary McGrory finished a survey of political races in New England and New York. As always, t her copy twinkled brightly in the Star (circ. 266,414). In her home town of Boston, she watched the pols stand "cigar-to-cigar" to cheer Mr. Truman; in New York she noted that ardent Campaigner Nelson Rockefeller "plunges into a crowd as into a warm bath," and referred to Rockefeller and Governor Averell Harriman as "two millionaires tramping the streets begging for work." Reading her stories. Political Reporter Carroll...