Word: handley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Eric Martin-Smith, 22, Cambridge student, new British amateur golf champion (TIME, June i); and Joan Surtees, great-granddaughter of Robert Smith Surtees, oldtime sporting novelist (Jar-rocks's Jaunts & Jollities, Handley Cross...
...England: William Sampson Handley, Walter Sydney Lazarus-Barlow, Sir George Lenthal Cheatle, Sir Charles Gordon-Watson...
...John Handley Henshaw...
...Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. went the $100.000 prize, and to the Federal Court in Brooklyn went Frederick Handley Page with a lawsuit for $300,000 (the prize money tripled), claiming that the Tanager's slotted wing was an infringement of his patent...
Quickly the Curtiss people retaliated. They got the court to order the Handley Page entry held in the U. S. as evidence of contempt of court. Circumstances: In 1921, the Curtiss Company won an injunction restraining Handley Page "henceforth and forever" from importing any aviation products to the U. S., because the English company was using certain Curtiss devices. In England Curtiss had no redress. But they could keep Handley Page out of the U. S. The revival of their injunction was a Curtiss move to prove that Handley Page was prosecuting the $300,000 lawsuit without "clean hands." Probable...