Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indigenous folklore of Southern negroes for many generations back." The contention was important, for $10,000,000 hangs upon the Court's decision as to whether or not. recent Coca-Cola advertisements featuring Brer Fox et al. have infringed upon the copyrights of Author Chandler's books. Plaintiff in the $10,000,000 infringement suit is Mrs. Esther La Rose Harris, widow of the author, owner of the copyrights...
...only Gillette's directors were defending their direction last week. A group of eight onetime directors of Sonora Products Corp. of America found themselves being sued for "a corrupt and unlawful agreement and conspiracy." No small matter was the suit; $1,500,000 is at stake. And plaintiff in the case is Irving Trust Co., now Sonora's receiver...
Circus Suit Sells-Floto Circus and Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey last week faced charges that they have conspired to create a monopoly. Plaintiff in the suit, and asking for $1.040,000 damages, was Miller Brothers 101 Ranch show group. Alleged monopolistic acts: defacement of plaintiff's advertising, spreading of malicious rumors, the enticement of Cinemactor Tom Mix away from Miller Bros, to Sells-Floto at $12,000 per week...
...Manhattan a Federal judge heard a petition by Katz Underwear Co. to restrain "Katz" Pajamas, Inc. from the use of its corporate name. The judge denied the petition. But he remarked: "Some advantage accrued to the plaintiff through currency of the popular expression 'cat's pajamas,' indicating extreme approval...
...summoned famed writers and artists to testify that the Society "could not tell the difference between filth and literature." Writer Carl Van Doren called the Society "a conspicuous nuisance in the community." Heywood Broun, co-biographer with Margaret Leech (Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer) of Anthony Comstock, said that the plaintiff's reputation was "bad." Artist Rockwell Kent testified that by emphasizing the "filth" in books which it disapproves (notably Jurgen, Casanova's Homecoming and The Well of Loneliness) the Society has boosted sales of such books beyond normal by bringing them to the attention of eroticurious minds...