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...against efforts by her nephews to block her marriage with dissolute, notorious, 41-year-old Prince Luis Fernando de Bourbon of Spain. One of the complainant nephews is his grace the Due de Brissac. The court, after mature reflection, held that "in French law the right to bring such suit as this appertains only to ancestral relatives, not to descendants...
...instead of placing it in the hands of a receiver, and finally undertake to consolidate the entire Mexican indebtedness in the form of a new 5% loan. No sooner was this agreement reached than one Gustavo Gallapin, a Swiss resident of New York who owns 200 Mexican bonds, filed suit for injunction against the bankers' plan-his attorney being Candidate Alexander Simpson, who will oppose Candidate Dwight Whitney Morrow for the New Jersey senatorship. Denying vociferously that his purpose was political mudslinging, Lawyer Simpson introduced Ambassador Morrow's name several times into the petition, recalled that...
...traditional bitterness between the Tribune and the Hearst papers (American and Herald & Examiner), intensified by recent occurrences, led to the filing of a $250.000 libel suit against the Herald & Examiner. Fortnight ago the Tribune disclosed that City Editor Harry Read of the American had been a Florida guest of Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone. The Tribune was also first to introduce the name of Ted Tod, Herald & Examiner crime reporter, as press-agent for a dog race track controlled by gang interests...
Another employe bonus was revealed last week: that of Eugene Gilford Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel Corp. Put on the witness stand in the famed, inter minable Eaton-Youngstown suit (TIME, March 24 et seq.), Mr. Grace declared that his salary was $12,000 per year, but that he also received a bonus figured "at a factor of 1½" Mr. Grace's bonus...
...pretty and had reached years of indiscretion. Her mother's clear feminine eye saw her wilful daughter with understanding but helpless despair. Nothing permanently troubled Tycoon Plimsoll's occasionally anxious optimism. The "big toad in the one-toad puddle of Lakeville," he could arrange situations to suit himself. Ineligible but attractive young men were shipped off to faraway posts; harmless, ambitious eligibles were invited to dinner. Father Plimsoll did not even shrink from employing a detective. But his best-laid plans did not so much go wrong as turn inside out, a trick of Fate...