Word: defender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neiman-Marcus store, which sued for $7,400,000 because Lait and Mortimer had written: "Some Neiman models are call girls . . . and the Dallas fairy colony is composed of many Neiman dress and millinery designers." Crown Publishers Inc., which published U.S.A. Confidential, promptly decided that it could not defend the Lait-Mortimer brand of journalism, settled out of court with the store by publicly apologizing. But Authors Lait and Mortimer refused to settle, boldly announced: "We propose to establish the truth of all our assertions [in the book]." Last week Columnist Mortimer and the estate of Editor Lait, who died...
...World Socialists of Boston have challenged the affirmative team to defend to defend their stand for inheritance, tonight at the Socialists' headquarters in Boston. The College's debater's said they would use the contest as practice for Yale on Friday, while the Socialists called it "an opportunity to throw light on property relationships...
...Foster had been guilty of conduct toward a certain George English which was "insulting and irritating in both words and actions." Foster, who seemed the aggressor, thereafter challenged English to a duel that same evening. As Mr. English was not one to go off half-cocked, he refused to defend his honor that evening, but promised to do so the next morning if Mr. Foster insisted. Foster was very insistent, and seconds were duly appointed--a Mr. Bullard and a Mr. Wallack...
...there are 30,000 hotels with 1,500,000 guest rooms, which make an annual gross in excess of $2 billion. We operate 23 hotels in the U.S. [with] 24,680 rooms, and in 1954 their gross was $119 million. That is not a monopoly. We will vigorously defend the action of our corporation in acquiring the Statler company." Added Hilton: "Most of our future expansion will be outside...
...World Socialist Party of Boston issued a challenge to the Debate Council Friday to defend the negative side of next Friday's Yale topic: "Resolved, That the inheritance of wealth is against the best interests of society...