Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left to right, were hammering at the Dulles-Wilson ruling; e.g., Ohio's Senator John Bricker accused the Government of "sacrificing an American soldier to appease Japanese public opinion." Girard's defense attorney, who was recommended for the job by the Hearst New York Journal-American, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington to have Girard brought back to the U.S., announced plans to subpoena Dulles, Wilson and Army Secretary Wilber Brucker. The counterblasts were soon rolling in from all over Asia, where the Dulles-Wilson ruling had been hailed as a declaration that...
...Justice Department brought suit to force Du Pont to give up its G.M. shares. After five years of legal wrestling, Chicago's U.S. District Court Judge Walter J. LaBuy dismissed the Government's suit. Ruled Judge LaBuy, after studying more than 2,000 exhibits and 8,283 pages of testimony: "The Government has failed to prove conspiracy, monopolization, a restraint of trade, or any reasonable probability of a restraint." Attorney General Herbert Brownell's Justice Department appealed to the Supreme Court,* but with scant hope of winning a reversal: LaBuy's decision seemed foolproof and final...
More convincing was Burton's second point of law: the court erred in holding that Section 7 applied "at the time of suit," after Du Pont had held the stock for 30 years, although what the law specifically forbids is "acquisition." In previous cases Section 7 had been applied soon after the acquisition, and many a lawyer agreed with Burton that by applying it 30 years after the fact, the court had opened up a new field of antitrust prosecutions (see BUSINESS). "Over 40 years after the enactment of the Clayton Act," wrote Burton, "it now becomes apparent...
...swatches of material and the other on the colors of the paintings. Some buy blind, simply phone their orders and leave the choice to Lowitz. Since the orders are often for hundreds of paintings at a time. Lowitz tries to keep an inventory of about 30,000 pictures, to suit all tastes, stacked in 17 locked vaults. The problem is not demand but supply. Says Lowitz: "It's harder to find good artists than good clients...
Trauma. In Akron, Henry Lee Ivery, whose blackjack and revolver were confiscated by police last November after he shot at a prowler, filed a $1,500 suit against the city of Akron, alleging that he has suffered ever since from a "feeling of insecurity...