Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scotty does not own, never has owned, and never will own that residence. It has always been the plaything of Albert M. Johnson, and is still subject to purchase by the Government under the terms of the land patent granted to Johnson...
They ought to use their legal remedy and not the remedy of force." A squat, sloppily dressed man with a mop of uncombed hair and the face of a kindly bulldog, William Hammatt Davis, 61, is a successful Manhattan patent attorney who has long made labor relations his avocation. He has served in many a Government agency, State and national, was chairman of the New York State Board of Mediation. To him belongs credit for settlement of the Allis-Chalmers strike, which Labor Department conciliators had given up, OPM's Hillman had fumbled and OPM's Knudsen...
...convinced them that the agreement said exactly what they both wanted to say, in different words. They capitulated, unanimously adopted a resolution thanking Davis for his "able, patient and impartial work." Day after that exhausting weekend, indefatigable Mr. Davis appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court and masterfully argued a patent-infringement case...
Stephen Dutton was always considered a very fast man with a dollar - preferably someone else's dollar. But in his prime, in the dim, goldbrick, 0. Henry era of gentle grafters, patent-medicine fakers, conmen and bunco artists, Steve the Swindler was regarded as especially expert in talking himself into funds and out of trouble. He ranked with Grand Central Pete and Paper Collar Joe, who were tops in bilking the rubes; for a time Steve Dutton was partner of the old master, Perrin Sumner, who was known in the Gay '90s as The Great American Identifier...
...before, and may never be again, quite such an economic study as the committee closed its books on. The committee spent $1,062,000, once had a staff of 182 experts, looked into 95 different industries, heard 552 witnesses. It made headlines month after month with sensational charges of patent monopoly in the glass-container industry, of international patent combines which put Germany's finger in the U.S. magnesium and optical-glass industries, etc. As its permanent record it left 37 volumes of printed testimony, 43 exhaustive monographs on various phases of its study...