Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reducators' list--which names 68 faculty members as "Communists, Communist-sympathizers, or fellow-travelers"--died a quiet death yesterday in the hands of the City Solicitor. And at the same time, Joseph E. Thornton, Federal Bureau of Investigation chief in New England, announced that the "F.B.I. is not making and has not made an investigation of the subject of alleged subversive activities at Harvard...
Meanwhile, the legal opinion on the list was still in the hands of the City Solicitor. He is not expected to give an opinion until Monday afternoon's Council session...
...Councillor John R. Lynch at last Monday's Council meeting, was approved by seven of the nine members--including Mayor Edward A. Crane '35. It must pass from City Manager John B. Atkinson to Chief John R. King, and then be submitted on the problem of constitutionality to City Solicitor John A. Daly. As of last night, King had not yet received the order...
...expanding, new stores are sprouting like mushrooms. The only thing that saves the book from absurdity is Novelist Shute's lively discernment about people & places. The villagers who shelter Jean in Japanese-occupied Malaya are real farmers in a real village. The London office of Jean's solicitor is perfectly authentic, and in Australia the reader can almost hear her husband's cattle moo. But Jean is as unconvincing as a Horatio Alger hero...
Headed by Circuit Court Judge Charles Fahy, who is a former U.S. Solicitor General, and including two Negro members,*the committee probed, criticized, prodded and argued. All three services offered the same reasons for resisting change: Negroes were neither as well educated nor as skilled as their white counterparts, therefore they must be kept in unskilled jobs. Furthermore, they must be segregated, because mixed units could cause friction; the services could not "get ahead of the country...