Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main legal issue was whether she had filed the copies "promptly," as specified by the Copyright Act of 1909. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled she had not. To crusty Justice McReynolds last week fell the job of reversing that decision and setting Messrs. Pearson and Allen on their own tack. Read he: "While no action can be maintained before copies are actually deposited, mere delay will not destroy the right to sue. . . . The cause will be remanded to the District Court [for the setting of damages]." Four of the original Nine Old Men concurred. Dissenters were Justices...
...Fleisher disavowed responsibility for the priest's remarks, refused to resign. Last week, as Dr. Fleisher was bounced out of the University for "His sponsorship of a [Father O'Flanagan's] lecture," the American Association of University Professors bounced in, started an investigation to determine whether the University had breached academic freedom...
Presently surrendering to U. S. authorities, genial Promoter Bob found juries no more of a problem than the speculators he had cajoled. No less than three juries split over the question of whether or not he had used the mails to defraud. The case was finally nol-prossed...
...Danish religious press was undecided whether Author Tandrup was being satirical or only devoutly whimsical. U. S. readers will recognize the tone: that of Green Pastures. Essentially the tale is serious enough; its symbolism includes politics as well as religion. As for the humor of Jonah's situations, the original author appears to have been something of a humorist himself...
...past month, various members of the Freshman and Sophomore class have received curious little postcards which enquire politely "whether the recipient is interested in working with foreign students." A start has been made in resurrecting the almost defunct Brooks House Foreign Student Committee, but there is a definite need for some specific program which will care for the hundred foreign students who annually arrive in Cambridge relatively un-befriended...