Word: lawsuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family. In Arabia, where the Sherif is considered a mental case, none was surprised when the King's police presently announced, after grilling six and killing one of the followers of Abdul Hamid, that he had merely dreamed up a fantastic scheme of regicide after losing a lawsuit over some land in which the King was interested...
...advertised too, warned any bargain seekers that the company "wholly denied, challenged and controverted" the county's right to sell. Lest such legalistic language obscure the point, a Climax attorney explained: "We're telling anyone who might try to buy . . . that he would be buying himself a lawsuit...
...land, $2,000,000 cash for the building. To this day Tiffany & Co. has never published a financial report. Extremely inactive, the closely held stock sometimes does not change hands for years. Last known sale: three shares last summer at $465 a share. But in a 1932 lawsuit Tiffany & Co. reluctantly said sales in the preceding 40 years were $350,000,000. Fellow tradesmen put boom-year gross at $20,000,000. much less today. Present seneschal of Tiffany tradition is six-foot, grey-haired John Chandler Moore, whose grandfather was vice president under the first Tiffany. To friends, John...
Many a smart art dealer has been sued by a customer who thinks he has been gypped. But few are the art lovers smart enough to get themselves sued by a dealer on the same grounds. Embroiled in a lawsuit in Hollywood, Calif, last week was a smart, grey, stocky art collector named Dr. U. (for Ulrich) L. (for he won't say what) Di Ghilini. Dr. Di Ghilini is a magician, an adept at exposing fake mediums, who baffles and intrigues the cinema...
...some money, and at the same time SEC got tired of muttering to itself: "When will he start to sue CORP.?" When lawyers for SEC, a party to the reorganization under the Bankruptcy Law, demanded that he use the money he proposed to raise to get on with his lawsuit, Pollak made headlines by echoing the cry of many a businessman: "SEC persecution...