Word: file
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widow is Mrs. Katherine Ryan of St. Paul, 60, tall, handsome, persistent. In 1904 her husband, the late Kingsley Ryan, patented four mechanical self-locking nut & bolt devices. In 1913 she renewed the patents, began to file suits and threaten suits against steel companies. She obtained an $18,000 settlement out of court from U. S. Steel. Although the settlement included her promised "good behaviour" in the future, she now claims the old suit had nothing to do with the patents on which her present suit is based...
...modestly as an "amateur of the geographical sciences." Harvard is to give geography its co-ordinate place with the other sciences. Dr. Rice is founding a school of geography, which will have its own building and an equipment complete in every detail. This building will house the most complete file of records of expeditions to every part of the earth to be found anywhere in one place and available for reference and study. The building will mount its own wireless plant so that expeditions in remote lands may be in touch with the home base always. Field work and surveying...
...library continues to be one of the best equipped for the general reader. In the reading room a large number of daily newspapers from all sections of the country together with the leading magazines of the world are on file. Equipment for games includes billiard and pool tables, and card and chess rooms...
...Merchants & Miners Transportation Co. rammed, exploded and sent to the bottom of Massachusetts Bay the gasoline tanker Pinthis (TIME, June 23). Fire and water killed 50, including all hands on the Pinthis. Wild tales by semi-hysterical passengers landed in Boston prompted the U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service to file four charges against Captain Archibald H. Brooks, master of the Fairfax: 1) excessive speed in a fog; 2) violation of pilot rules; 3) unskillfulness; 4) negligence. His trial by a Federal board of inspectors began in Boston where local feeling was strongly against him and was later transferred to Norfolk...
...espousing activities which had brought him into ridicule, which his friends had finally persuaded him to abandon. Jews rejoiced, but not for long. Came a blast from Wodenist Ludendorff. He was not suing for divorce, he still loved his wife, still hated the Jews. What he had done was file a petition for dissolution of their financial partnership so that Frau von Ludendorff might be protected from the mounting pile of libel and damage suits registered against Volkswarte...