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Five years ago Elsy Florence Eva Borders, London housewife, was enraged when her new house, like many another product of Britain's depression building boom, began to leak, creak and crumble. Last year she stopped making mortgage payments to the building society, and when the society sued, personally fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Elsy | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

The Week, edited by a tall, personable Oxonian, Claude Cockburn (pronounced koburn), who quit as U. S. correspondent for the London Times because he could not stomach its extreme Rightist policy. Editor Cockburn holds down a regular job with the Daily Worker (under the name of Frank Pitcairn), grinds out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dear German Reader | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

These were the spoils of the vanquished and Wendell Willkie deserves most of the credit for winning them. Other businessmen have fought tongue-tied and embarrassed before the Congressional committee, have sued in the courts and taken their licking. In the courts Willkie has taken his beating with the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Indiana Advocate | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

The Pitchfork supported Pa Ferguson, and its editor once sued a newspaper for the 5? he had paid for a copy only to find nothing about Ferguson in it. Ten years ago Pitchfork Smith 'walked into a church where Fort Worth's Rev. J. Frank Norris (who had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of Old Pitch | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

The deal was ancient financial history in 1936 when stockholders sued, claiming that the profit rightfully belonged to the company, not the directors in the syndicate. The members of the syndicate replied that the corporation neither wanted the stock nor was in a position to buy it and that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Nothing Wrongful | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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