Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First test of the boycott came fortnight ago with the opening of the Worcester Art Museum's second biennial show of U. S. paintings. Because Director Francis Henry Taylor could not and would not pay rentals, the following well-known U. S. artists refused to submit pictures: Alexander Brook, Bernard Karfiol, Ernest Fiene, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kantor, Reginald Marsh, Katherine Schmidt, Arnold Blanch, Paul Cadmus, Niles Spencer, Henry Schnakenberg. Director Taylor freely admitted that the boycott badly handicapped his exhibition...
...Paramount and RKO, seven of their subsidiaries and five major executives: of a charge of having violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Law by withholding their films from three St. Louis cinemansions (TIME, Oct. 14); by a Federal court jury; in St. Louis. The case was regarded as a prime test of the legality of the U. S. cinema distributing system. Died. Harold Ellicott Scarborough, 38, until lately European editorial manager and head of the London Bureau of the New York Herald Tribune; by leaping from the Southampton-bound Berengaria off the Isle of Wight. With the Tribune and Herald Tribune...
...otherwise might be valid. . . . Invalid parts of a law may be dropped only if what is retained is fully operative as a law. In the Public Utility Act, invalid provisions are the rule rather than the exception." New Dealers insisted that the Baltimore case was an unfair test of the law because all parties to the dispute and their lawyers are connected in some way with the utility industry. What the Administration wants is a clear-cut case of the U. S. versus a holding company, so that an adverse decision may be appealed by Government counsel. After Judge Coleman...
Nelson Doubleday, not through his book stores but through his mail order sales & book clubs, is himself a price-cutter and for that reason is by no means popular in the book trade. Jack Strauss, Macy's bookman, is his good friend. But shrewd Mr. Doubleday wanted a test-case on the law, and Macy's supplied a perfect one. Sole issue was the constitutionality of the State law. For Macy's, Lawyer Leon Lauterstein argued that the department store was being deprived of property without due process of law. He said that the books belonged...
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