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In San Francisco, Switchman Alex J. Haskins sued and won $25,000 from Southern Pacific Railroad because, when he jumped into a patch of umbrella plant as a train approached, the plant sucked in one of his legs, toppled him under the train.
Today Realmleader Hitler maintains a standing threat to sue anyone who makes available in a foreign language the full text of his war-breathing autobiography, My Battle, which is still Germany's bestseller, has sold well over 1,000,000 copies. Available in English is nothing but a bowdlerized...
In Seattle Clam Grower J. C. Carroll sued Puget Sound Navigation Co. on the ground that its steamer, Chippewa Chase, disturbed his clams.
¶ Aware that an adverse decision would boost the Federal debt about $10,000,000,000, would wipe out the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, would have a highly deflationary effect upon their program, New Dealers began to figure what to do. They considered: 1) enlarging the Court so...
¶ The price of the Government's gold bonds was bid up in heavy trading. Liberty 3½s reached 105.3, a record high. The stocks of railroads and other corporations which might have to pay $1,690 on $1,000 bonds slumped heavily. Trust companies feared they might...