Word: courting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jurist cannot speak out on controversial subjects, "on or off the record," noted Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge, who may have been taking a little dig at some of his more gabby brethren of the court. "All [a justice] can do is talk in platitudes and generalities about things that don't matter ... So why should people spend their time listening...
After 2½ spicy months in the tabloids, Ferruccio Tagliavini, 35, robustious Metropolitan Opera tenor, was adjudged, by a 2-1 decision, the father of a 17-month-old girl, whose mother is an enthusiastic brunette music lover named Mary Phillips, 28. The court ordered Tagliavini to pay $25 a week for the baby's support. The outraged tenor, for almost eight years married to bouncy Met Soprano Pia Tassinari, denied everything and announced that he would appeal. Said Miss Phillips: "I'm so happy for baby . . . She needs new shoes." But the trial had taught her bitterness...
...Chicago's Federal Court last week, Preston Tucker's company and his rear-engined "car of tomorrow" looked like the one-hoss shay. If not bankrupt, the company seemed only a bumper's length away. The court appointed two trustees in reorganization to operate the business for the next 60 days, then submit a plan for reorganization along with a report on the "desirability of continuance...
...bitter jokes-many founded on fact. In their time, the Long Island's trains have been delayed by stray dogs, wet leaves on the tracks, and sea gulls short-circuiting transformers. Its trains sometimes take the wrong switch and "get lost." Last week the comedy was taken to court. The Long Island's officers marched into Brooklyn's Federal Court and declared the road bankrupt, the first U.S. Class 1 railroad to do so in four years...
...Pennsylvania Railroad, which owns the Long Island lock, stock & comic book, had decided to quit footing the bills anyway: the Long Island would have to shift for itself. With only $60,000 cash left in its till, there was nothing left for the Long Island but to ask the court to appoint trustees and reorganize...