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Word: sues (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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EPHRAIM Brown was back in Chog's Cove. Four-five years ago, he had shipped aboard the privateer Glimpse, he had taken leave of Sue. He recalls; "Wall, I got to go aboard now, got to be going. Take care o' yourself, Eph. I will; don't forget me Sue. I won't. Wanting to kiss her and afraid to do it." Four-five years was a long time: three had been spent on the Glimpse, and then Eph, and Roger, and Sam had wrecked the sloop Marie Elise. The Nahuas had been hospitable. The English, said...

Author: By J. M., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/25/1933 | See Source »

...Western States which limit liability in case of death to $10,000 or less per person. But planes privately chartered like taxicabs to take passengers when & where they want to go have been exempt from this common carrier category. Best the relatives of the dead could do was sue on grounds of negligence, as did the relatives of 14 killed in a chartered Colonial Western Airways plane in 1929, collecting $86,000. Last week privately chartered planes became common carriers too. in a decision in Philadelphia's Federal Circuit Court of Appeals by Judge Joseph Buffington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Unlimited Liability | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...since the ms. of the racy reminiscences is the other jewel of the plot, the Empress ultimately makes a meal of said ms. and, one complication having thus consumed another, the agreeable young people involved (the other young man is Ronnie Fish; the girls, "good old" Gertrude Butterwick and Sue Brown) are free to marry and the reader's ribs to recuperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nobbled Empress | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

...thus the stock exchanges continued at full blast), but they hesitated to recommend a stock or urge the purchase of a bond if it involved use of the mails or interstate commerce. Of course they advised old clients whom they could trust, for it was the racketeer, the sue-&-settle people, who would save every scrap of a firm's written matter waiting for a chance to trip it up. that Wall Street feared most. Many firms ceased or radically altered their "market letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Frankfurter v. Pupils | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...Goodman were also involved in a deal in which Old Man Ridley was duped into assigning to them and Weinstein $210,000 through the transfer of funds to three dummy corporations. Police had not yet connected Hoffman and Goodman to the double murder. Meantime, Ridley relatives prepared to sue for settlement of the $4,000,000 estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sequels | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

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