Word: sues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explained, when a case that was at all doubtful came before the Revenue Bureau, it was decided against the taxpayer. The Bureau could not decide against itself and then bring suit against the taxpayer. So the poor taxpayer had to pay the assessment, just or not, and then sue to recover it. If the taxpayer won, he had settled, at his cost, the doubts of the tax-collectors...
...appeared with William Faversham in The Squaw Man, has played with the Stuart Walker Stock Company and with Billie Burke, was named by Neysa McMein, famed illustrator, as one of the twelve most beautiful women in the United States. Earlier reports had stated that Mr. Hoyt too would sue...
...days of indignant editorials in the press about Trashy Literature: ". . . We allude to the productions of Bulwer, Dickens and others in England . . ." (the American Notes had not yet been forgotten nor forgiven) - "and those of Sue and others [presumably Dumas] in France; all of which are abominable trash and hardly worth the paper on which they are printed. . . ." But, by way of contrast, and apparently commended, the vogue for Literary Annuals and Gift Books- the Casket of Love, Deivdrops Gathered and Presented in Their Brightness and Purity, the Cypress Wreath, a Book of Consolation for Those Who Mourn...
...called Albrecht von Graefe a double-dyed traitor. The latter rose, supported by one Major Henning, and another Reinhold Walle, and indignantly challenged Dr. Kraemer to a duel. But the doctor would not fight, he offered to repeat his statements outside the Reichstag in order that the trio could sue him for libel, if they still "felt warm under the collar," and insisted upon revenge. While the doctor was making this offer someone placed a brace of water pistols near the Speaker's platform in such a position that they could be seen by the whole House. When...
...patent suits which bring up for consideration the whole problem of broadcasting. But this apparently commendable impulse has been uncharitably criticized as an attempt to again complete control of the new industry. Certainly the defense of the company's proceedings which was based on the argument that neglect to sue would "in effect dedicate valuable property to the public" rings sharply of self-interest, rather than of a desire to promote public good. And theories arguing that the quickest way to secure governmental regulation of any industry, and thus further public interests, is to foster the growth of monopolistic power...