Word: lawsuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practice of differentiation. The process is threefold: the reputation for sanctity must be established, the heroic quality of the virtues must be shown, the working of miracles must be proven. After beatification, in order to qualify for canonization, miracles must be performed. The procedure, therefore, is in reality a lawsuit pleaded before the tribunal of the Congregation of Rites. The postulator must furnish evidence of the claim to beatification, and it is the duty of the Promoter of the Faith-popularly known as the Devil's advocate-to challenge all evidence in the case...
...This is no ordinary lawsuit," said Mr. Bonynge. "Let me assure the Commission that, however earnest I have been, that earnestness comes from no feeling of hostility toward Germany, either on the part of my Government or myself. It springs only from the conviction that our cause is right and just. It has been a matter of regret to me that the Commission's long work in settling thousands of war claims should practically end with a case which arouses such feeling as this...
Because it employs a distinctive brand of free-and-easy journalism, Variety frequently gets into trouble, is often sued. This happened again fortnight ago, this time after a French lawsuit. The paper was fined 1,000 francs ($39.22), ordered to give 150,000 francs ($5,882.35) to Actor Pierre Meyer. The court had found that Variety had reported that the only reason Actor Meyer was appearing in the Palace Music Hall Revue in Paris was because his wife had financed the show. In addition, slow-spoken, big-nosed Editor Sime Silverman was sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment...
...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...
...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 outcome: an exchange of patents...