Word: mandamus
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Asking that $1,500,000 bequeathed to the City of Providence, R. I., for the planting and cultivation of certain trees, be forfeited to the University, attorneys have brought a writ of mandamus against the city, stating that it has failed to meet the conditions of the will. In accordance with the will, it was said that the money should revert to Harvard for scholarships for Providence high school graduates...
...have shown little enthusiasm for democratic ways, the 22 lawyers energetically demanded every final democratic safeguard. All week long the legalists bobbed up & down, objecting, concurring, complaining. They protested because the court reporter worked for a firm with an allegedly Jewish executive. They applied for a writ of mandamus to have the whole thing dropped. They said there were too many policemen in court for a "relaxed" atmosphere-and FBI agents had been "persecuting" the accused. When Prosecutor 0. John Rogge inadvertently let slip that this was the third indictment for some of the defendants, the whole "prejudiced" jury panel...
...School students, acting on behalf of their colleague, Frederic B. Dailey 3L, won a skillful fight against the Cambridge Board of Elections yesterday, when Supreme Court Justice Qua ordered that a writ of mandamus be issued to enlist the plaintiff on the election roll...
...student counselors asked for a writ of mandamus to allow Dailey to vote in the elections next week, while City Solicitor Evarts, on behalf of the local commission, maintained that the third-year man was not intending to reside here...
...State's Lincoln University (for Negroes). When he applied for entrance to Missouri's law school, the University Registrar tactfully suggested that Lincoln could give him a "scholarship" to study law elsewhere. Negro Gaines declined to be sidetracked, got NAACP to bring suit for a writ of mandamus compelling Missouri to admit him. Thereupon the University threw out his application, ruled that, although Lincoln was a State college, its academic credits were not acceptable at the State University...