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In 1919 Willys-Overland Co. took over Moline Plow Co., made George Peek president at $100,000 a year. President Peek made Hugh Johnson, whom he had met with Bernard Baruch on the War Industries Board, his chief counsel. When New York and Chicago bankers took over the liquidation of...
Men who make a living out of heroism become cynical. Graft-ridden China was too tempting for Hero Hall. Soon Chinese officials sued him in San Francisco for $100,000 they claimed they had given him to buy airplanes. After the suit was withdrawn, Hall returned to China to engage...
Sued. Upton Sinclair, writer, and William Fox, onetime cinema producer; by Rosika Schwimmer, Hungarian-born pacifist; for $100,000 damages. Charge: that in Writer Sinclair's indignant book. Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox, she was depicted as an "arch-hypocrite" in approaching Producer Fox with the Peace Ship plan...
Though Henry Ford will probably appeal the verdict, it was the first Leland victory in the ten-year fight. Originally Ford sued Sweeten for $6,800 in unpaid notes and interest, but the agency promptly filed a counter suit for $160,000. Sweeten claimed that Henry Ford had promised to...
One day last year a Washington. D. C. undertaker named John T. Rhines wanted to board an Eastern Air Transport plane in Atlantic City. According to Undertaker Rhines, he was refused: not because he was carrying a bomb, not because he was intoxicated, but because he was a Negro. Last...