Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Look Homeward, Angel. In Long Beach, Calif., Victor Peterson sued for the custody of his four children, claiming that Mrs. Peterson, fearful lest the coastal regions slide into the sea, had fled with her off spring to the sanctuary of a mountain belonging to an evangelist named Everett Lee.
* And last week libel-sued, along with King Features and Hearst Publications, for $600,000 by his longtime target, 'Labor Leader Harry Bridges.
The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 35, Manhattan's first Negro Congressman-elect, who preaches hellfire in a gates-ajar collar to his flock at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and kisses the womenfolk in the congregation afterward, ran into parsonage trouble. Mrs. Powell, a onetime nightclub performer...
¶ Libel-sued for $1,750,000 by General Douglas MacArthur.*
The bank issued a sharp, 64-word statement (which Washer later quoted in his complaint): "We cannot see how this institution could possibly reinstate anybody who had admittedly falsified his expense account . . . been guilty of flagrant insubordination, who called inhabitants of the community in which he was working 'yokels...