Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wallace stopped the mission, later said: "The Department [of Agriculture] has no intention of re-employing the Roerichs." In Manhattan, Roerich's chief financial backer, Louis L. Horch, a broker later turned bureaucrat, who had put more than $1,000,000 into the Riverside Drive Museum, went to court...
Novelist Knut Hamsun, 88, who won fame in the '20s with his hard-breathing accounts of man's bare-knuckled fight with Mother Nature (Growth of The Soil), was sued in Norway for the damage he had done his native land as a wartime collaborator. "The Germans expected...
In Bloomington, Ind., two readers used another tried & true method of criticizing the press. Bernard C. Gavit, dean of the Indiana University law school, and Law Professor W. Howard Mann had been called Communists by the Hearst press. They sued for $400,000. Last week, Hearst settled out of court...
Off-Color. In Redwood City, Calif., Donald Brown sued Binney & Smith Co., crayon manufacturers, for $35,243, complained that after his young son ate some of the crayons his body turned blue and his blood chocolate brown.
The Charming Cats. Newspapers called him "The Worst Man in the World." They told fantastic stories of him: he could raise devils and dead cats; he drank blood; he celebrated the obscene Black Mass in his "temple" at Chancery Lane. Crowley added some stories of his own. He said he...