Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emich lost his dealership because General Motors ruled that he was doing a bad job. Emich charged that it was because he ran his own little financing company, which cut into the business of General Motors Acceptance Corp. Prodded by an attorney for the Government (which had started an antitrust...
Motormaker Henry Kaiser and Moneyman Cyrus S. Eaton of Cleveland's Otis & Co. were a smooth-working financial team. The two friends had floated two issues of Kaiser-Frazer stock, and when K-F needed steel, Eaton had set up a steel company to supply some of it. When...
Poultry Sum. In Kansas City, Werdin E. Harlow sued Fred C. Bays for $800, said it was wages due him as a "professional chicken and turkey sitter."
Kindly, Cynical. Seven years ago Sacheverell Sitwell and his brother Osbert and sister Edith sued for libel (and won) when London's Reynolds News declared that oblivion had claimed them and "they are remembered with kindly, if slightly cynical, smiles." Sacheverell Sitwell's latest reminiscences make it clear...
Max Baer, short-time heavyweight champion (1934-35), was sued by a motorist who had annoyed him. The motorist, who had honked his horn at Baer, charged that Baer had shown his annoyance by poking him in the face. Damages demanded: $50,000 (for the motorist), another $50,000 (for...