Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helen Curtis, known likewise as Mrs. A. L. Curtis. After the agreement had been made it was discovered that Mrs. Curtis was a person of Negro blood. Then the trouble began. Mr. John J. Buckley, one of the parties to the agreement, brought suit in equity to prevent the transfer of the property to Mrs. Curtis. For four years the case was fought. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People supported Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Corrigan against Mr. Buckley, and other organizations joined in the legal struggle against this type of "segregation"?one of the great issues...
...District of Columbia Supreme Court, and in the Court of Appeals, Mr. Buckley won. Transfer of the property to Mrs. Curtis was prohibited. The lawyers of the Negro organizations?Moorfield Storey, Louis Marshall, Arthur B. Spingarn?fought the case in the Supreme Court. Last week Justice Sanford read the court's decision...
...gained much approbation by refusing a similar Russian contribution (TIME, May 17). The Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, thereupon created a sensation by announcing that the Trade Union Council could not have accepted the Russian gift in any case, because he had personally stopped the Soviet money transfer under the Emergency Power Act. Sir William magnanimously added that, although the Emergency Power Act was still in force, he would not stop money transfers to the Miners' Federation, because their strike was "legal," whereas, in his opinion, the "general strike...
Coach Butler, the new and youthful mentor of the Midshipmen, was formerly an assistant of Coach Callow of Washington. Therefore the stroke he teaches is distinetly at variance with the Glendon style. However, he has not made the transfer too sharp for the veteran Navy oarsmen and the long Glendon finish, with the leaning back characteristic of Annapolis crews, is still noticeable...
Before he died, James Abbott McNeill Whistler sold one of his most famed canvases to the Luxembourg, one of Paris' great art galleries. The consideration for the transfer was small, and Whistler is supposed to have understood that some time after his death it would be translated to the magnificent Louvre and hang among the great masters. Whistler died in 1903, but the picture still hangs in the Luxembourg. It is unusual for paintings to be hung in the Louvre until some 50 years after an artist's death...