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...Bible constitutional: "The law is astute and zealous in seeing to it that all religious beliefs and disbeliefs be given unfettered expression. Authentic freethinking involves the indubitable right to believe in God, as well as the unfettered license not to believe or to disbelieve in a deity. . . . Undisguised, the plaintiff's attack is on a belief and trust in God. Such belief and trust, however, regardless of one's own belief, have received recognition in State and judicial documents from the earliest days of our Republic. . . . 'In God We Trust' has become an American aphorism stamped...
...court settlement on the prize money. With this experience behind him he filed suit against Phillips Chemical for all of the $600, charging that the judges had fraudulently deleted words from his lists. Last April the case was tried in Manhattan Municipal Court before Referee John M. Cragen. Vigorously Plaintiff Gillman challenged the findings of Contest Judges Walter K. Van Olinda and Andrew J. Davis, both of whom had a hand in preparing the Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Dictionary. The courtroom rang for a fortnight with such words as: aha, ama, hep, aim, ani, pah. Aha, said Plaintiff...
Plenty of other candidates for popular martyrdom popped up to bid for Gentleman Farmer Chandler's potatoes. Declared Manhattan Jeweler Norman C. Norman, a plaintiff in the Supreme Court gold-clause cases: "I am particularly anxious to serve time in the penitentiary...
Shanferoke contended that New Rochelle Coal & Lumber is solvent and therefore had no right to apply for reorganization under Section 77b. If solvent corporations could seek reorganization under the Bankruptcy Law, said the plaintiff, creditors would be deprived of their property (i. e. claims) in violation of the ''due process" clause of the Fifth Amendment. With this argument the Circuit Court did not agree. Ruling that no violation of the Fifth Amendment was involved, it declared, in effect, that a solvent corporation may apply for permission to reorganize under Section 77b. Last week Shanferoke Coal had 14 days left...
...wherein Boles, dressed in a magician's garb complete with plug hat, wig, barbershop mustache and false nose (see cut), does tricks for the inmates. Silliest sequence: Miss Muir being sent to jail for contempt when, quizzed by Boles in a divorce action for which he is the plaintiff's attorney, she refuses to divulge to whom Boles's wife's lover was sending daily orchids...