Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warmer than the plateau. The valley itself is a treacherous campsite, prone to flash floods and violent sand storms; at one camp last month, a sandstorm shredded more than 600 tents to ribbons, leaving 3,000 refugees without shelter. Many of the tents, moreover, are Sears Roebuck's "Ted Williams" models, donated by the U.S. but designed for weekend summer camping...
...luck of Clarence Jackson reads like something out of Dickens. It seems less a question of luck than of a remarkable incompatibility between law and justice. How is it that Sears, Roebuck, having retained this scrofulous attorney and empowered him to act in its name, does not have the same responsibility for his actions as it would if a clerk shortchanged a customer? Or has it no responsibility there, either? If it is possible for a lawyer to act "ostensibly" for a corporation while in fact pursuing private and nefarious interests, then we have some loose bricks in our legal...
...This confirmed my suspicions about three sacred cows: the law, lawyers, and Sears, Roebuck...
...generally following in the wayward footsteps of Miriani. In July, Gordon broke the news that the mayor's wife Mary had filed suit for separate maintenance. A few weeks ago, Gordon opened wounds again by reporting that Cavanagh had closed his wife's charge account at Sears, Roebuck-much to her embarrassment when she tried to purchase school shoes for four of her eight children...
...began with $1,500 worth of power tools ordered from Sears, Roebuck on an installment basis. As far as Jackson was concerned, the tools never worked properly, and after months of complaints and $900 in payments, he told Sears that he wanted his money back or the equipment replaced. When he stopped his payments and would not let the tools be reclaimed, Sears sued him for the unpaid $625.59; he countersued for his $900. Sears won, and he appealed. There the matter rested, at least for Clarence Jackson...