Word: sues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reminded me that as an "old collaborator of the New York Times" (as well as of a dozen other papers and agencies to whom he supplied the same semilegible onionskin handouts at $50 monthly), he would of course be entitled to a healthy severance allowance. I suggested that he sue...
...most dangerous enemy. Soetomo's chief lieutenant was a pint-sized woman, about 50 years old, who said she was born on the Isle of Man, claimed U.S. citizenship through one of her marriages, and was variously known as Miss Tantri, Miss Daventry, Miss Merdeka (freedom), and Surabaya Sue (for her "freedom" broadcasts over the secret Indonesian radio...
...Russian delegates attended a state dinner at the Governor General's Palace, now General Hodge's residence. They ate turkey and trimmings, scowled but did not speak. After dinner the Americans entertained them with unaccountable selections from a full library of modern films. The feature was Sunbonnet Sue, a sentimentally saccharine "B" picture which scratched and jerked across the screen for 80 minutes. (General Shtykov's interpreter gave up after five minutes.) Sunbonnet Sue was followed by an animated cartoon about Traphappy Porky, a jitterbugging pig, which added to the Russians' puzzlement. Promptly after the final...
...members grew curious. Who was the father? Would Miss Nordentoft marry him? The grey-haired 42-year-old schoolmistress, who had belonged to the Danish underground during the occupation, and had spent five months in a German prison, retorted that it was none of their business. She threatened to sue if they fired her. Already foster-mother of a year-old adopted child, she loves children, says they love her. Press, clergy, and teachers argued the case, most demanding that she be discharged...
...Jennings, onetime "redheaded terror of the Southwest," now 82-year-old proprietor of a one-acre chicken ranch, went to court in Los Angeles to sue for defamation of character ($100,000 worth). On the Lone Ranger radio program, he had not only been pictured as a common burglar and been suggested as responsible for turning a boy into a criminal, he complained, but "they had this Lone Ranger shootin' a gun out of my hand-and me an expert!" The onetime cattle-rustler, train-robber, killer (some dozen men by his own count), jailbird† (pardoned by President...