Word: suede
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Ruled that homeowners could not be sued for failing to abide by restrictive racial covenants in selling their properties, a sequel to a 1948 ruling which said that racial covenants were legal but could not be enforced in the courts.
Nevada has new citizens from other states who do not seem to understand that Biltz knows what is best for them all. One of the noisiest is ex-New Yorker Hank Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun. When gambling ads disappeared from Greenspun's paper, he sued both...
When her ex-husband, Actor Burgess Meredith, sued in Manhattan for a $200,000 slice of what was once "community property," Cinemactress Paulette Goddard asked the Supreme Court in Manhattan for some advice. A Mexican divorce had been good enough when she divorced Charlie Chaplin, but didn't the...
In Manhattan, Hermitage House publishers sued Actress Ethel Barrymore and Harper & Bros, publishers for $125,000 each. The charge: Miss Barrymore had signed a contract in 1947 to write her memoirs for Hermitage House, but last January agreed to let Harper have her story. The defense: Miss Barrymore had been...
Hollywood lawyers, who thrive on champagne-spiked arguments, had another one: onetime Actress Marion Davies was sued for $11,582, the catering cost of a party at her home last year celebrating the marriage (now defunct) of Marilyn Morrison to Sob-Singer Johnny Ray. The plaintiff: Marion's old...