Word: suede
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sole Jurisdiction. In 1952 Paul S. Russell, a nonunion electrician from Decatur, Ala., filed suit against the United Auto Workers for $50,000 damages. He charged that U.A.W. picket lines prevented him from driving to work at Decatur's Wolverine Tube Division of Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Co...
Crap Door. In Hartford, Conn., Dominick Granell was in a dice game that was raided by police, later complained that he was injured when he fell out a fourth-floor window while being chased by the law, sued the city for $15,000, settled for $490 at a pretrial hearing...
Impulse to Save. Supermarket defense devices are far less imaginative than the shoplifters' gimmicks. National Food trains clerks and checkers by film slides and lecture tapes ("An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of apprehension"), and most chains have beefed up their security forces. Checkers learn catcherlike signals...
Dames & Comedy. Too much money was not always a problem; Mike Todd's personal finances, like an anesthetist's bag, alternately puffed and collapsed. Fifty years or so ago in Minnesota, when he was Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen, son of a Polish rabbi, the family was poor. But before...
*"Paid hack" was the phrase that Britain's weekly The People once used to describe Randolph Churchill, who sued for libel and collected ?5,000 ($14,000) in damages (TIME, Oct. 22, 1956).