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Four years ago TIME reported that Reader Ryan had sued various railroads and steel corporations, including U. S. Steel, for $500,000,000, charging infringement of patents on self-locking nut & bolt devices invented by her late husband. The suits are still pending, and Mrs. Ryan, now 64, is about...
Last week the whole cinema industry seethed with the kind of undercover excitement that theatregoers never see on the screen. Producers and exhibitors called in their lawyers, talked of stopping license fees to sound-recording equipment makers until the situation was clarified. Sound technicians wondered if they would have to...
The von Stroheim Merry Widow, like the original operetta, concerned a Prince Danilo. The real Prince Danilo of Montenegro sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for libel, collected $4,000 in a Paris court. Well aware that 63-year-old Prince Danilo, living modestly near Nice, must have pricked up his ears...
In 1923 a stenographer at the State Capitol sued Governor Russell for seduction and ex-Governor Bilbo was called as a witness. Bilbo is no prude, but he did not want to be drawn into a friend's girl trouble. He hid out in a backwoods farm until Governor...
Nobody knows. Perhaps a drunkard threw a cigaret in a wastepaper basket. Perhaps there was a short circuit. Perhaps radicals set the blaze. Captain Warms and, by no coincidence, the whole Ward Line leans to the last theory. If arson can be proved, the line will be freed of criminal...