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...Philadelphia Apiarist Joseph Rexer was arraigned in court, charged with keeping "vicious" bees. The plaintiff exhibited 1,000 dead snapdragons. Ruled the judge: "The courts are not prepared to hold that bees are generally vicious. ... It will be necessary for the plaintiff to show that particular bees were generally vicious...
Months ago faithful Minister of Public Works McPherson charged that the suit was a political frame-up to ruin the Premier and besmirch Alberta's United Farmers Party in the person of its chief. But last week the Press had eyes chiefly for the plaintiff, beauteous, blonde Miss Vivian MacMillan who is exactly the type Hollywood likes to cast for stardom in courtroom dramas of clean women and dirty politics...
...Holland gauging economic conditions for President Roosevelt when his $1,000,000 plagiarism suit against Playwright James Hagan and the Paramount interests was thrown out of a Federal Court in Manhattan. After alleging that Playwright Hagan's One Saturday Afternoon was cribbed out of his novel, The Avenger, Plaintiff Child had tried to withdraw his suit with an apology. Refusing to permit this. Judge John M. Woolsey dismissed the suit only after assessing costs & fees against Mr. Child and remarking: "It gave me a pain. The charges are absolutely unfounded...
...case is a very extraordinary one. The plaintiff was trained as a trained nurse and worked in hospitals. She has seen people die, even from such gruesome things as cancer. . . . Yet she comes under the influence of a cult that teaches that this is all a great delusion and those dying with cancer are out of tune with the infinite and with...
...adopts the teachings of a woman leader of a cult who is now dead and in her grave. She was no Messiah and no God, just a woman of bones, flesh and blood, and yet this plaintiff, who will die as you and I, with hundreds of thousands of others, has seen fit to put aside real science ... to adopt the belief that pain and illness are things of the imagination and not of reality...