Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...booklets of matches arrived just in time to be distributed to the milling crowds of politically excited citizens. . . . Midst the joyous shouting of the crowds and while flags were flying in the southern breeze, the Plaintiff and his loyal aides ambitiously distributed the match booklets to the spirited tempo of patriotic airs. . . . Gradually these staunch voters of Tallapoosa County so assembled had occasion to open their booklets of matches to light up their cheroots, and as each did so, the booklet was immediately and indignantly closed and concealed from the eyes of the womenfolk or younger persons thereabouts...
...Eastman, author (Enjoyment of Laughter) and lecturer, whose skillful translations of Trotsky's works have done much to keep Trotsky's ideas current in the English-speaking world. Author Eastman charged that the Daily Worker had finally gone too far, sued for $250,000 in damages. Plaintiff Eastman: "I am suing . . . because I consider it my civic duty. . . . Every man who believes in ... democratic civilization as against tyranny and barbarism ought to> fight the American Communist Party with every honorable weapon in his grasp. . . ." Defendant Browder, appealing to the unwritten code, accused Plaintiff Eastman of carping...
...very tired, would like to sleep. The Judge granted a postponement until matinée time. When Miss Brice showed up, she sat next to her estranged husband Billy Rose, gaily chatted with him. On the stand, she was vague, noncommittal. Asked about her first conversation with Plaintiff Allen, she observed: "I think it started as a touch." Asked whether she was in Chicago in 1933 she responded: "I don't know where I was three weeks ago, much less in 1933." Before the afternoon was over Miss Brice had slyly played her hole card. When she was asked...
Promptly Publisher Block demanded a retraction. He got only a few meagre words of regret. Doggedly bent on satisfaction, Mr. Block instituted a $900,000 libel suit against the Nation and Mr. Allen. Up to this week no paper had published news of the action, for both plaintiff and defendants neatly avoided publicity by keeping the complaint out of court. If Mr. Block hoped that quietly starting suit against the Nation-which would be flattered if anyone thought it had $900,000- would smoke out a retraction, he guessed wrong. Last week the Nation's attorneys, most famed...
...case, which is docketed as the Enterprise Manufacturing Company vs. Amalgamated Shoe Workers, Local No. 38, is to be argued by the Williston and the Holmes Clubs. Attorneys for Plaintiff are Linn J. Firestone 2L, and Conrad J. Kleinman 2L, of the Williston Club, while attorneys for the Defendants are John H. Ferguson 3L, and John E. O'Keefe, of the Holmes Club...