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...more than a century. The new line, running from Lake Superior to Green Bay, is only a slight variation of the old and does not change the ownership of any important cities. It does, however, settle the ownership of numerous islands in Green Bay. The costs of the suit will be divided equally between the two states. Technically, neither...
...authority to require them to give up the property of two competitors in Alabama and Georgia, which they had acquired by stock purchases. The Supreme Court decision was not unanimous; Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Harlan Fiske Stone dissented. The Thatcher Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia won its suit involved in the same decision, though the Western Meat Co. of California lost...
...Supreme Court upheld the right of the General Electric Co. to set both a sale and resale price on all incandescent electric bulbs manufactured under its patents. The General Electric Co. had entered into a manufacturing and selling arrangement with the Westinghouse Co. on this basis. The Government suit had contended that such a scheme was in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law of 1890, and that a decision upholding it would destroy the force of the law in all cases involving patents. Chief Justice William Howard Taft wrote the decision which upheld the action of a lower Federal...
Aboard the Berengaria Queen Marie at first kept to her suite of staterooms, alleging mal de mer, though the crossing was anything but rough. Later she dined at the captain's table. Princess Ileana, clad in a grey one-piece bathing suit, swam several times in the ship's pool, accompanied by Prince Nicholas...
...passport in the name of one Ernest Lindstrom, Counselor of the Ministry. Another Finnish diplomat, named Lindblom, had just died, but few knew it, and Dr. Hjelf, saying he knew the passport name of Lindstrom would certainly be mistaken for Lindblom, calmly relates that he dressed me in business suit, felt hat, colored glasses, to look like Lindblom, and that I shaved my mustache to facilitate the transformation. Thus attired I am reported to have motored to the border in a diplomatic car, and to have expressed pleasure to Dr. Hjelf that it did not fly the red flag, emblem...