Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force the Government to keep its promise to pay them in 100? gold dollars. The Court's reasons: Those who sued had not actually proved a loss and to pay them in 100? dollars ($1.69 in 59? dollars) would result in their "unjustified enrichment." This apparently left the door open for suits by those who could prove a real loss; left the Treasury with an immense contingent liability on the $10,000,000,000 of Federal gold-clause bonds outstanding...
...that the sovereign can not be sued without its consent, the resolution would withdraw "any consent which the U. S. may have given" to the assertion of any claim against the Government for payment in 100? dollars on any of its securities, coins or currencies. Besides closing the door to legal action, the resolution put an extra padlock on by providing that no money shall be disbursed from the Treasury to pay any such claims...
Last week Judge and Mrs. Bryan were house guests of Ambassador and Mrs. Bingham as Southern hospitality opened wide the door of Buckingham Palace and the three "Georgia Peaches" sailed in to drop deft curtsies to Queen Mary. King George was in bed with catarrh at Sandringham, the Duke of York in bed with a cold at No.145 Piccadilly...
...already won one great victory for ASCAP. In 1917 when restaurants and hotels were the principal pirates of copyrighted music the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes laid down this dictum: "If the rights under the copyright are infringed only by a performance where money is taken in at the door, they are very imperfectly protected. ... If music did not pay it would be given up. If it pays, it pays out of the public's pocket. Whether it pays or not, the purpose of employing it is profit, and that is enough...
Having persuaded Investigator Rabell to incriminate himself thoroughly, Mr. Jones passed him a packet of marked bills. When the Investigator opened the study door to depart he was confronted by two Federal agents descending the stairs, guns drawn. He fled into the dining room, tossed the bills behind the door, surrendered...