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HOLLYWOOD--Bob Burns, bazooka-tooting movie and radio hillbilly, was sued for $70,000 damages today by Daniel Hoge, who claimed false imprisonment.
The 300,000 Negroes in Manhattan's Harlem, 200,000 others elsewhere in New York State have the vote, ride with whites on busses and trains, do not have to sidle into gutters when white folks pass. But in other ways New York Negroes are little better off than...
Comic Fred Allen's self-written weekly scripts are regularly combed for libel, slander, offense to tender sensibilities. But now & then, despite radio's stout guarding, Allen manages to sink a punch line into some touchy solar plexus. He has never been sued for anything he has said...
There were three other children in the Simpson family, and not much money. Mr. Simpson sued the Erie Railroad for damages, was finally awarded $30,000. But the Erie was tangled in bankruptcy and no money seemed to be forthcoming.
The suit as filed by the Governor called attention to the fact that Publisher Knox was Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1936. Said Colonel Knox: "This is the first time that I have ever been sued for being a Republican."