Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago that the idea of Shredded Wheat was first conceived. At that time (1893) one Henry D. Perky, a dyspeptic lawyer, was trying a lawsuit in a small Nebraska town. Breakfasting one morning at the community's only hotel, Lawyer Perky noticed a fellow breakfaster eating what looked like a saucer of whole wheat grain. He would take a large spoon and break up the cooked whole wheat, add milk and cream, and consume. Curious, Lawyer Perky asked questions...
...really important question is not whether Vanzetti was innocent but whether Vanzetti had a fair trial. If he received a fair trial, neither he nor his friends have, or ever had, any real complaint against the courts of Massachusetts. Under our system a lawsuit is not an independent, scientific investigation for the discovery of truth, but is an adversary proceeding. The court has no facilities for making impartial investigations. The machinery for the administration of justice does not, and from its very nature cannot, function perfectly. In criminal cases the de- Instead of blasting off 30 feet of matrix from...
...John W. Davis there has seldom been a more aristocratic Democratic nominee for President. Than John W. Davis few men have ever received a longer social invitation by telegraph. It came to his Manhattan home last week from Cincinnati, Ohio, whither he was planning to go to plead a lawsuit. It contained some 400 words, among which were...
...gramophone recordings. One of them has it that her Park Avenue home in Manhattan was purchased on the proceeds of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" alone. Last week figures were published to prove that she earned more than $100,000 in a single year from Victor records. A lawsuit made it public. The U. S. complained because she had felt exempt from an excess profit tax of $6,592; had paid; had sued for its return. In vain Mme. Gluck reminded the court that she had made those records as long ago as 1917, argued against paying...
...Herman Bernstein, editor of the Jewish Tribune, resigned last week to do private writing. He has pending a lawsuit against Henry Ford for $200,000 because he thinks scurrilous the Dearborn Independent's comments on his connection with Mr. Ford's "Peace Ship" of 1915. By transporting a bevy of pacifists and sociologists to Europe in 1915, Mr. Ford thought to get the "boys out of the trenches by Christmas." Europeans scoffed at him, frustrated...