Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent news reports on the so-called sensational lawsuit of Andy J. Yoder, an Amishman of Paint Township, Ohio, asking $40,000 for being "mited" [TIME, Nov. 17] calls for an explanation...
...only she could muster enough volume for the gallery seats. Further time was killed in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to portray "The American Tragedy" via the R-H (Rodgers and Hammerstein) formula. Dreiser is already dead, but his estate might find grounds for some sort of lawsuit here...
When Canadian Orange Crush, Ltd. needed help, he bought its stock (peak value: $4,300,000) for $43,000. Along with it he got a lawsuit filed by the Honey Dew chain of restaurants, in which Orange Crush had an interest. Quickwitted Eddie Taylor dropped in to see the Honey Dew board of directors. He came out a vice president. Two days later the president died, and Taylor got into...
...formal objection to the project; but their real fear was that the revised river course would sever their armies in Honan and Shantung Provinces. They warned UNRRA that if work continued they would "feel free to take whatever action they deem necessary"-which obviously did not mean a lawsuit...
Pauley Disagrees. That brought Edwin W. Pauley into the picture. He had made a fortune out of oil taken from California's tidelands field. He argued that it would be a bad thing to let the issue go to the Supreme Court: the Government's lawsuit, filed by bumbling Attorney General Tom Clark, was clouding the titles of oil companies (such as his). Therefore, Congress should pass a resolution renouncing any U.S. interest in submerged lands. Not so much because of what he did as because of how he did it, Pauley could not become Under Secretary...