Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damages from Commonwealth Edison Co. and Charles Kelly, greeter for the company. Reason: when Greeter Kelly shook hands with Greeter Mitchell in an office building, Greeter Kelly "did violently, vigorously and firmly seize and squeeze with such force that the third phalanx of the first finger of the plaintiff's right hand was broken...
...this place." Mile Reif, vexed by this reflection on her art, applied for an injunction. Her application was heard by Justice Meier Steinbrink, at one time attorney for the Eagle. He held that the union, "not only misrepresented the situation but attempted by intimidation to injure or destroy the plaintiff's business," thereupon granted an injunction against the picketing...
Later, Mr. Rascoe claims, Mr. Annenberg was hired away from Hearst by the Tribune to perform the same function and "in the course of this . . . war between newspapers and their gunmen, at least 30 of whom, were under the leadership of . . . the plaintiff [Mr. Annenberg] . . . 27 newspaper dealers, newsboys or others were killed" fostering in Chicago "a great amount of open lawlessness...
...Marshall Field store had withdrawn its advertising from the Hearst papers, Mr. Annenberg, then a Hearst employe, led an army of 60 drivers and newsboys which surrounded the store for an hour yelling "Marshall Field's closed!" after which the store "submitted to the oppressive tactics of the plaintiff and his co-conspirators...
...charity will go an unnamed sum received by the Duke of Windsor in settlement of the libel suit he had brought against Publisher William Heinemann and Author Geoffrey Dennis, whose Coronation Commentary, the Duke's attorney said, had "repeated the rumor that the lady who is now the plaintiff's wife occupied before his marriage to her the position of his mistress." Announcing settlement of the suit, Baron Hewart, Lord Chief Justice of England, suggested that the Duke might "almost" be justified in laying upon Author Dennis a "thoroughly efficacious horsewhip...