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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cross-examined on the "prejudicial" issue of homosexuality. He was indicted again in Baltimore, but last March U.S. District Judge Roszel C. Thomsen threw out the case, ruling: "Provoo . . . has been denied the right of speedy trial within the meaning of the Sixth Amendment." Last week the Supreme Court upheld the dismissal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Justice Denied | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...REFUNDS are in prospect for dozens of companies which got partial fast tax write-offs on plants built during World War II. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a lower-court ruling that Ohio Power Co. should get a $6 million refund because it was allowed only a 35% write-off on an $11 million plant. Under the law, it should have been allowed 100%. The ruling opened the way for refunds to 39 companies with claims of $62 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

DIXON-YATES CONTRACT may be invalid after all, says AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss, although he has repeatedly upheld its legality. Strauss's point: there may be a "conflict of interest" because Investment Banker Adolph Wenzell served simultaneously as a consultant to the Government and an executive of the First Boston Corp., which helped in the project's financing. Possible loss to Dixon-Yates, if the contract is declared illegal: some $3,000,000 spent on preliminary work at the West Memphis, Ark. power-plant site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...union must honor an arbitration clause in a contract. The A.F.L. Teamsters Union refused to obey such a clause in a contract with W. L. Mead, Inc. of Boston, went on strike anyway. The company fired the strikers, and the board upheld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Week of Decisions | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...union cannot legally send investigators to make "on-the-spot" examinations of job classifications. When a union tried to do this at a Westinghouse plant, the company refused to allow the investigators to enter, was upheld by the board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Week of Decisions | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

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