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Sued for Divorce. Charles Ponzi, 54, celebrated Boston swindler, now a Roman tourist guide; by Mrs. Rose Ponzi whom he married in 1918; in Cambridge, Mass. Grounds: he had served "more than five years" (1922-34) in prison. Explained she: "When he was down . . . I stuck to him."
Sued. The City of Chicago; by John Ickes, 63, brother of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes; for $31,125 in salary, $9,337 in interest, $11,000 in raises, accrued between 1926 and 1932 during which period he was removed from his job as chief clerk of...
Born 55 years ago in the Italian province of Catanzaro, white-maned Giuseppe Donato has long enlivened Philadelphia with artistic disputation. In 1915 he sued Chocolate Tycoon Milton Snavely Hershey for refusing to accept a marble group called Dance of Eternal Spring which he had ordered for a fountain on...
Sued for Divorce. William Ellery Leonard, 60, poet (Two Lives), longtime professor at the University of Wisconsin; by Mrs. Grace Golden Leonard. 28, his third wife; in Madison, Wis. Grounds: cruelty. Celebrated for his distance-phobia, he would not travel more than five blocks from his house.
Thereupon Vasile Foar sued B. & O. for $37,500 damages. A jury eventually awarded him $4,500. The case was then carried to a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Last week in Chicago the Circuit Court handed down a unanimous decision holding that Vasile Foar had been discharged without...