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...Jamaica (L. I.) Municipal Court last week Charles ("Buddy") Bacon, n, sat facing a row of executives of Petro Oil Burners & Fuel Oil Co. of Jamaica. The oil executives were defendants. Buddy, as part owner and business manager of the Douglaston Weekly (his sister, Marcia, 12, is editor) was plaintiff, suing for $182 payment for advertising. Editor Bacon testified that a Mr. Matthews, erstwhile Petro salesman, asked to take a full-page advertisement for 14 issues. "I argued with him because I knew I'd have to make the paper bigger. I go to school and I have plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst's Newsprint | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...minutes. Judge Bartlett has a quick comprehension of marital troubles, needs few details. Children and property cause no hitch, providing the husband and wife have agreed on these matters in advance. If a defendant refuses to accept service or to appoint a Reno attorney to represent him, the plaintiff must wait an additional 40 days (not necessarily in Nevada) when a decree can be granted by default. If a defendant comes to Reno, vigorously contests a case, divorces can be obtained in Nevada with no more ease than elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: New Freedom | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

Died. Myron C. Wick, 38, Ohio broker, plaintiff in the suit to enjoin the merger between Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Bethlehem Steel Corp.; of pneumonia, a week after he had been taken ill in court, at Youngstown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 18, 1930 | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...same doctrine was applied in the similar Massachusetts case of Smith v. New England Aircraft Co. But there, injunction was denied, largely because the portion of the plaintiff's land in question was covered with dense brush and woods, and the occupants failed to prove material discomfort to themselves because of low flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Sky the Limit? | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...Light, charging acts that would be most unusual in a company of Northern Ohio's size and prestige. The base of the suit was the charge that the power company conspired to have an employe work for the bus lines, that this person "maliciously fomented trouble among the plaintiff's employes, placed quantities of carborundum dust and emery dust in the motors of various busses of the plaintiffs and put baking syrup in the oil pans, let air out of the tires of busses, placed tacks and nails in specially prepared molds at bus stops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Dust, Tacks, Nails | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

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