Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gives her workmen better terms than union labor gets. But she is a despot- insistent upon having her own way. The new woman is Fredericka Gage, who marries Kennion Ruyland, Augusta's grandnephew. Since Fredericka will not be dominated, the fight begins. In the end-after a lawsuit, a suicide, much biting talk and a dramatic strike in the Ruylands' factory- Fredericka wins. It is an exciting novel that moves swiftly, without faltering. But it has at least one considerable fault. It claims to be a serious "study." Yet for all its modern setting, much of it seems...
Events leading up to the lawsuit in which the affair has now become involved...
...obtained for him the sobriquet of " the American Prince of Wales." He said that "America is no place for a lady or gentleman to live in." Asked if he had ever been West, he remarked, "Yes, as far as Sixth Avenue." An African hunt in a steam automobile; a lawsuit for alienating the affections of another man's wife; an escapade during the War; landing in the U. S. with 50 trunks which took him three hours and $1,400 to get by the Customs Officials; a passport seizure by the American Consul in Paris; the importation from Egypt...
Then it was, that the attention of the Little Red Gods was distracted by more pressing matters in other parts of Europe, and the misfortunes of signor Misiano began. He managed to become involved in a lawsuit with a Neapolitan newspaper, which obtained possession of and proceeded to publish some of Misiano's exceedingly private correspondence. Therein it was revealed that the Genoese Deputy, some two years before, had taken the precaution to become a naturalized Russian citizen in case of accident. Inasmuch as a box of Bolshevik gold, destined for work in Italy, had just fallen into the hands...