Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operations in maddeningly vague language to congressional committees and relishing a joke in private with a friend. He had an unexpected love of partygoing, yet on one Halloween in 1971, when a Virginia host asked guests to arrive in costume. Burns attended in his usual dark business suit. Says Charls Walker, then Under Secretary of the Treasury: "He came in costume, all right. He came dressed as Arthur Burns...
...white jury of eight men and four women said Friday the Wamponoags were not a tribe in August 1976 when they filed the suit, nor in 1790, the date of a federal law that forms the basis for the land claim went into effect, nor in 1869 or 1870, when the Indian district of Mashpee was incorporated as a town...
...decision brings to a close over 40 days of sessions to determine whether or not the Wamponoags of Mashpee are a tribe, the first step in trying their suit, in which they claim over 11,000 acres in Mashpee valued at $30 million...
...Wamponoags based their suit on the Indian Non-Intercourse Act of 1790, which prohibited the transfer of Indian lands without the consent of the federal government. When the Massachusetts legislature incorporated Mashpee as a town in 1870, the Indians claim it violated this law and so the land in Mashpee belongs to them...
...musician who appears on stage in a gray business suit with a conservative tie and white Pumas has a wealth of talent. An innovative album like The Stranger is a welcomed addition to Billy Joel's music...