Word: sues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discharge from the U. S. Navy to John Thomas Simpkin, twice convicted of overstaying leaves of absence; 2) to grant a year's pay ($8,000) to the widow of William Holt Gale, a foreign service officer; 3) to allow the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians to sue the Government for claims which they renounced for consideration of $1,000,000 in a treaty made 30 years...
...willed it to my father, Col. John Jacob Astor. He willed it to me. I hope they return it. It's one of our oldest heirlooms." Of a report that a $2,000,000 breach of promise suit would be filed against him, young Astor declared: "People can sue for lots of things, but she can't sue me. She was the one who broke the engagement." Of his tour, wistfully: "I don't suppose that you want to know anything about my trip?" Said Miss Gillespie's mother: "The incident is closed. . . . The incident...
...have not been able to get a client who had little enough intellect to employ me. I have tried, however. ... I do not recall that I ever took many lawsuits for corporations in my life. Certainly none against a poor man. I am on the other side. I sue the railroads. I sue the corporations. I sometimes defend people charged with crime. I had a pretty good practice representing employes under the Federal Employes' Liability Act. Under this bill I could not represent any of them. . . . The sorriest job I ever had has been in the United States Senate...
From 1894 to 1908, betting on New York horse races was legal under State law. In 1908 Charles Evans Hughes as a reform Governor outlawed racetrack bets with a statute which also denied betters the right to sue to collect winnings. By 1912, since racing cannot flourish without gambling, a turf track on the golf course of Long Island's Piping Rock Club was the only one functioning in the State. Year later a test case uncovered a loophole in the Hughes law. It was legal for betters to deposit money with a bookmaker before...
...shore up a sagging sport than to provide the State with a new source of tax revenue. Last week, Governor Lehman signed a bill which pulled the remaining teeth out of the Hughes anti-betting law by permitting money to change hands at the track and betters to sue for their winnings...