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The 25% Tunney got "tied ... up for in Philadelphia" was sued for in 1927 by Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, potent Philadelphia racketeer. Hoff is reputed to have been promised $200,000 for supplying Tunney with a mysterious sort of "protection." That suit never went to trial.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Championship Business | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

At Knoxville. Tenn., Mrs. Ruth Jenkins Gate sued for divorce because her baby's first words, "Damn it to hell.'' were caused, she said, by her husband's habitual profanity.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swank | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

At Trenton, Thomas J. Hanley, bus driver, did not mind when his wife: 1) hit him with a bottle, 2) kicked him out of bed, 3) ordered him from the house. 4) made him sleep on the floor, 5) accused him of extra-legal loves, 6) spied on him, 7...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swank | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Last week Mayor Thompson won another long-standing fight with the Chicago Tribune when the Illinois Supreme Court decided that he and other officials did not have to reimburse the city for $2,345,604, representing principal and interest on fees to real estate experts in connection with street improvements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Thompson v. McCormicks | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. John Harriman of Manhattan, youthful son of Banker Oliver Harriman, nephew of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt; by Mrs. Anna Foley Harriman, of Richmond, Va., formerly Mrs. Louis de L'Aigle Munds. Charge: that he had been "notoriously unfaithful."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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