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Clarke Daniel, Maryland real estate developer, dies at 99
March 21, 2010Clarke Daniel, a Washington area real estate developer, wanted to build a shopping center on a plot in Riverdale, but it had too many trees. It was December 1947, and earlier that month Elliott Roosevelt, the son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, offered $1 Yule trees from his farm in New York. Roosevelt said he wanted to "make Christians out of Christmas tree dealers."
Today in History
March 21, 2010-- Today is Sunday, March 21, the 80th day of 2010. There are 285 days left in the year.
Health reform and the specter of Alf Landon
March 21, 2010"This is the largest tax bill in history," the Republican leader fumed. The reform "is unjust, unworkable, stupidly drafted and wastefully financed."
Full court press -- and then some
March 21, 2010SUPREME POWER
A fair standard for protective orders in Maryland
March 21, 2010 The Post's campaign to denigrate the reasonable standards required by Maryland law to obtain a protective order in cases of alleged domestic abuse ["In Maryland, protection denied," "Remember them in November" editorials, March 4 and 7] has been unfettered by fact or fairness. The Maryland House Judiciary Committee rejected, by a lopsided 15 to 6 vote, the latest attempt to deny citizens due process in these summary proceedings for the following reasons:
Court: Anna Nicole Smith gets none of oil fortune
March 21, 2010SAN FRANCISCO -- The elderly Texas billionaire who married Anna Nicole Smith in the last year of his life never intended to leave the former stripper any portion of his vast fortune, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
Court orders Fed to release bailout documents
March 21, 2010NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a significant victory for news media, a federal appeals court said the Federal Reserve must disclose records on emergency lending programs to banks bailed out by the government in the financial crisis.
Court orders Fed to release bailout documents
March 21, 2010NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a significant victory for news media, a federal appeals court said the Federal Reserve must disclose records on emergency lending programs to banks bailed out by the government in the financial crisis.
Court orders Fed to release bailout documents
March 21, 2010 NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a significant victory for news media, a federal appeals court said the Federal Reserve must disclose records on emergency lending programs to banks bailed out by the government in the financial crisis.
Group led by justice's wife cited for fundraising
March 21, 2010RICHMOND, Va. -- Consumer protection officials say a Virginia-based conservative advocacy group led by the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been raising money without first registering with state regulators.
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