Word: suede
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To top it off, Perot has been sued by Nella A. Walston, widow of the founder and a major holder of Walston stock. She charged that Perot and his partners seized control of the firm in order to use its capital to cut their multimillion-dollar losses in duPont Glore...
Although class-action suits are almost always filed on behalf of a group of people with a common grievance, the Southern Illinois suit is being brought against a class of defendants-a switch that the university's lawyer, John Fierich, says is perfectly legal under Illinois common law. In...
Scrooge of the Airwaves Jack Benny, 39 going on 80, has finally met his match in parsimony-the Internal Revenue Service. Benny, who for more than 60 years has capitalized on his radio/TV reputation as the ultimate tightwad to amass a fortune in seven figures, is now being sued for...
As the capricious and supremely autocratic ruler of a business empire worth billions, Howard Hughes has spent almost as much time and trouble fighting legal problems as the germs about which he constantly worries. In 1973, after a twelve-year court fight, he finally upset a $180 million judgment against...
For some time Lake Champlain had been filling up with sludge, apparently from an International Paper Co. factory at Ticonderoga, N.Y. Finally, in 1971, H. Keith Zahn went to federal court and sued the New York pulpmaker on behalf of himself and some 200 others who owned Vermont land fronting...