Word: counterclaims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hummon had the last laugh. By week's end three Georgia judges had heard suits concerning his claim and the counterclaim of Lieutenant Governor M. E. Thompson to the governorship. The judges chose Hummon in two cases out of three...
Eversharp has already filed two patent infringement suits, for $2,000,000 apiece, against Ball and Kimberly, in addition to its $1,000,000 counterclaim against Reynolds (TIME, Nov. 12, 1944). But none of them seemed concerned. Said one manufacturer: "Nobody's done any copying. The ball principle dates way back to the last century...
Back came a counterclaim, also for $1,000,000. Eversharp and Eberhard Faber, in a sizzling defense memorandum, went after the "somewhat checkered career" of Milton Reynolds, president of Reynolds International Pen. They charged that he had owned or been active in at least four companies which went broke. He had recently sold U.S. retailers Mexican cigaret lighters which "later turned out to be defective. He ... is apparently ... a 'stop-&-go guy,' a man who . . . drops the item [when it goes sour] and turns to another...
...they scurried into the political badlands to handclasp, speechify, claim and counterclaim. Into North Carolina and West Virginia scurried Thomas E. Dewey; into Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama stumped Robert Taft. In Missouri and Nebraska, Wendell Willkie quietly gathered in delegates that his rivals had counted on as safe in their own bags. The newest Gallup poll showed him second in popularity among Republican voters, upped him from 10% to 17% in two weeks' time (Dewey lost 4%, but was still far in the lead with...
...where the Welles mission was the biggest story of the week, journalists went in for some superlatives of their own. Headline of the week flared across the pages of the late Frederick Gilmer Bonfils' Denver Post, with a counterclaim dwarfing Hitler's as much as Hitler's dwarfed Bismarck's - "Roosevelt," headlined the Post, "Wants to Dictate Peace and Become President of World...