Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hands, flowers in her lap, and a face like a dim sleepy flower, was started at $1,500, raised by three bidders in fast cuts to $20,000, bought by Messrs. Scott & Fowls, dealers. Four more Gainsboroughs were sold for a total of $7,900. Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts paid $31,000 for a picture of a girl and some red herrings by Millais.* Goya's portrait of Pepe Illo, a bullfighter of Madrid, brought $25,000. On the third day of the sale of paintings, 91 odd canvases, and some impressive ones, were sold for a total...
...Frederick F. Fuller, an inventor whose brain deals weirdly and intelligently with interlocking cog wheels, made a contract with the National Cash Register Co. For his $5,000 yearly salary he was to give to the company all inventions he developed during that year and during the year thereafter. At the end of the contract year he wanted his agreement renewed. An N. C. R. employing official refused but let him continue on the payroll under an assignment of invention rights annexed to, but not executed with, the 1909 agreement. A cash consideration was not made explicit. This arrangement endured...
...Remington was in the field with this new machine, a powerful competitor to N. C. R. This company brought suit, claiming, and accurately, that Mr. Fuller had developed his new register within a year after leaving its employ. SCOTUS* Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, before his appointment by President Coolidge to the attorney-generalship and later to the bench, represented N. C. R. Afterwards Charles Evans Hughes, onetime (1910-16) SCOTUS Justice took his place. John A. Garver and Frank M. Patterson (not ascertainable as a relative of the N. R. C. Pattersons) now represent the Remington concern. Justice Joseph...
...Remington Cash Register Co. relatively free to continue as chief and most aggressive competitor to the National Cash Register Co. Other related suits impend.** But the Remington people are going right ahead with their production and sales. Already $1,500,000 has been invested in developing and pushing the Fuller arrangement, of which some 58,000 have already been manufactured. Also 3,000 workmen of the Remington forces can keep their jobs...
Wednesday. Rain again. A reporter told me that William C. ("Pop") Fuller, who has coached me simply for ages, had given out a statement to the effect that I had a good chance against the Lenglen woman, and that my plan of battle had all been figured out before I left California. Pop said that I would drive hard, and aim at the corners of the court; the reporter wanted to know if this was true. . . I am afraid it is. And it is also true that I am going to play with a wooden racket, and a felt-covered...