Word: lawsuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sirs: Your account of Professor Bohr's application of Professor Werner Heisenberg's concept of uncertainty to "everyday existence, where an inch is an inch, and a gallon is a gallon" (TIME, July 3, p. 40) recalled to mind an entertaining bit og testimony given in a lawsuit in which my father was counsel for one of the litigants. The case involved an automobile collision. Immediately before the collision, one of the automobiles had struck a cow; and during the trial it became important for the plaintiff to bring out the speed with which this cow was moving...
...protection"' of bondholders is a big phrase in Depression. "Protective committees" are formed, they solicit holders of defaulted bonds to deposit their securities, they try by protest and lawsuit to collect-the expenses of the effort being charged against the bond owners. So many protective committees exist today that they have been called "the bellyaching racket." Even the proposed U. S. securities bill would create a corporation to protect U. S. holders of foreign bonds. And a committee was announced last week in London, to be headed by popular Sir Harry Armstrong, who retired in 1931 as British Consul...
...Columbia University three weeks ago the expulsion of Editor Reed Harris of the Spectator caused rioting (TIME, April 18). Last week Editor Harris, who had been threatening a lawsuit, was reinstated. He apologized for being rude to Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes. Everybody was satisfied. Then Student Harris immediately resigned. Everybody was still satisfied...
Having already condemned many a farm, torn down a county seat, reinterred 2,850 corpses, last week Union Electric Light & Power Co. found itself involved in a seven-figure lawsuit. The wealthy Snyder brothers of Kansas City - Robert, Leroy and Kenneth - wanted $1,000,000 in damages because the lake floods the edge of their 5,400-acre estate at Hahatonka, near the damsite. Onetime Senator James Reed, the plaintiffs' attorney, declared at Jefferson City that Hahatonka "was one of the wonder spots of the world." Its "castle," lake and sparkling, spring-fed trout-stream drew visitors from...
...branched out for himself, bought a Chicago nickelodeon (primitive cinema theater) and broke into the entertainment racket. From that out, his rise was picturesquely, Algeresquely steady. Motion Picture Patents Co. tried to freeze him out. Laemmle fought back tooth & nail with loud-barking publicity, many a lawsuit (289 in less than three years), lived to see his enemies scattered by legal mandate, his own fortune secured...