Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his primary campaign, New York's Congressman Ham Fish was linked to jailed Bundist Fritz Kuhn in a newspaper ad. The ad was paid for by a committee headed by Playwright Maxwell Anderson. Promptly Ham Fish sued for $250,000 libel. Sniffed Anderson: "It is his practice to...
Louis Untermeyer, 58, unremitting poetaster and anthologist (Modern American Poetry; Modern British Poetry), was sued for separation and alimony by his third wife, who claimed, in affidavits filed with the court, that on their tenth wedding anniversary he had asked for a divorce so he "might marry the woman who...
John D. Spreckels III, 35-year-old California sugar heir, who was divorced by his first wife in 1936 on the charge that in three years he had lost $50,000 at the races, found his second wife more lenient. She sued for separate maintenance, charged that in three months...
Too Busy to Argue. Western railroad operators were fighting mad at Biddle and Berge last week, but they had little time for a quarrel. Their lines were jammed with a record freight and passenger traffic. Union Pacific's president, big Bill Jeffers, took time out to roar that Berge...
Roger ("Terrible") Touhy, 46, old-time sharpshooting, jail-breaking U.S. public enemy No. 1, now behind bars in Stateville (Ill.) on a 99-year-term for kidnapping, sued 20th Century-Fox for producing and distributing the film Roger Touhy, Gangster, Balaban & Katz for exhibiting it. Charges: libel, slander and violation...