Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was a full week. To Eleanor Roosevelt, winging down the coast of Brazil (see p. 19), he sent a message on their 39th wedding anniversary. Day before, Second Son Elliott had been sued for divorce by Wife Ruth Googins, mother of three (see p. 86).
Beset by the scarcity of farm labor and machinery, Farmer Hulbert needed a tractor. When Twin Falls County auctioned off a secondhand 1940 International (list price: $1,200), which had been used for weed control, he gladly made the winning bid of $1,050. As he was about to collect...
Next day angry, pride-wounded Skipper Jockie sued Hotel Proprietor Meyer for $800 damages. Magistrate Willem van Lingen ordered a payment of $200-plus-costs to the plaintiff.
Drew Pearson (621 papers, circ. 18,000,000) is the most widely distributed Washington commentator, has been labeled generally as a New Dealer, occasionally as a trial balloon floater, and specifically by Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull as a liar.* Columnist Fisher is impressed by slim, suave Andrew Russell Pearson...
A long-winded soap opera came to a happy ending last week. Back in 1941, huge Lever Bros. (Swan, Spry, etc.) sued equally huge Procter & Gamble (Ivory. Crisco, etc.) in Baltimore, contending that P. & G.'s new Ivory soap infringed on Lever's brand-new patented Swan soap...