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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice of the Peace Ray Baugh of Monterey County sued Hearst's Examiner for $125.000 compensatory damages, $100.000 punitive damages on twelve counts of alleged libel. The jury found no libel, awarded $1 punitive damages. Individual jurors later explained that they wanted to save their fellow townsman the costs of the trial. Their zeal was misdirected, since Plaintiff Baugh was obliged to pay the costs anyway. Lawyer Neylan & Client Hearst considered disposal of a $225.000 suit for $1 net a distinct victory...
...victory." But it was decisive only as a victory of the VFW over the American Legion. Senator Robinson and his Administration friends were left, grinning, in possession of the field, sure that the President's veto could now be upheld. Hastily Senator Thomas began a new maneuver to save the Patman Bill from doom. He moved to reconsider the measure, thereby postponing its delivery to the White House where Franklin Roosevelt was itching to veto...
...present banking act is the provision for who will be despotic. The bill provides, under Title Two, a plan which places the whole system under political control. In future years, perhaps, if the party to which the President belongs should change, a balance will be set up which will save the country from extreme policies but in the meanwhile, President Roosevelt will have dictatorial powers, over the whole banking system of the land. And there is no reason to believe that future presidents, through their powers of appointment, should not weight the Board in their own interests, and thus also...
During the past year, it has been necessary for members of the Houses to buy the special privilege or use the Linden Street courts. It is expected that the new arrangement will save a considerable sum to the regular purchasers of both the general ticket and the House card, but that more students will buy the general ticket and so compensate the Athletic Association...
...biggest perpetual-motion men of recent years turned up his nose at the Patent Office. Garabed T. K. Giragossian went directly to Congress and enthralled Congressmen for seven years (1917-24) with stories of how the Garabed Free Energy Generator would save the U.S. a $30,000,000,000 annual power bill, win the War, redeem the Sahara, rescue Mankind from the curse of the steam engine, crime and insanity. Mr. Giragossian asked for a special Act of Congress to protect his discovery-"not a perpetual motion machine"-and got such an act (1917). President Wilson vetoed the bill, Congress...