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Meanwhile, the Government's civil suit to recover the Teapot Dome oil reserves is now pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, while the criminal suit charging Messrs. Sinclair and Fall with fraud is floundering through vexing preliminaries in a lower court...
Under a sharp, shrewd, cocky jaw, a lanky loon in a striped suit might have been bashing a smaller, silk-hatted maniac into cross-eyed insensibility...
These words, spoken in a suite at the Book Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, by an industrious Jew, Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, marked the end of the first week of a libel suit. Mr. Sapiro wants to vindicate his race and, incidentally, to obtain $1,000,000 in damages from Mr. Ford for certain articles published in the Dearborn Independent in 1924-25, which pictured a national menace in Mr. Sapiro's farm organization activities (TIME, March...
Senator Reed, having secured several favorable rulings from Judge Fred Raymond barring the racial issue from the suit, launched the defense with his most inflammatory and satiric senatorial style. Said he: "I think His Honor will tell you that the Hebrew race is not here bringing this suit, and that Mr. Sapiro has no right to come here and recover damages for the Hebrew race, and put the money in his own pocket as damage done to himself. This is not che case of former Gov. Lowden, or Mr. Lasker, or Mr. Baruch, or Mr. Lazinsky, or anybody else. This...
There is something unfair about the proposition. Florida has a climate, it has bathing beauties, palm trees, the cocoanut grove--many things which Connecticut has not. In Florida one may meet Jimmy Walker in a bathing suit. Billie Burke in a house-apron, movie stars in Rolls-Royces--none of which graces the Connecticut landscape. And now to be deprived of the hibernating elephants--it appears there is no justice...