Word: sues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plot. What these men discussed the Nazis would have given tanks to know. Fearing that closer liaison would result in increased United Nations military action against the Reich, the Nazis inspired a burst of reported reports via Stockholm that the Russians might soon sue for peace. As if in answer, the Russians revealed that last winter they had rounded up and executed scores of Nazi parachute spies, had crushed out cells of fifth columnists-"disaffected youths, former Tsarist officials and civil servants"-in Leningrad...
Actual filing of a suit, expected within ten days, awaited only a decision on whether the prosecution would be civil or criminal. Arnold wants to make it a criminal case. Under his threats to sue, A.P. last spring liberalized its membership rules, permitting the granting of an A.P. franchise to a new member by a simple majority, instead of four-fifths, of its 1,400 members (TIME, May 4). Arnold promptly informed A.P. that it had not gone far enough, was still violating antitrust laws...
...gassed, only 90,000 were fatalities, and complete recoveries predominated. (Of the 28,000,000 men wounded by other weapons, 8,200,000 died.) And gas is quick and effective, they argue. War's objective is to immobilize the enemy and make him sue for peace. What quicker agent than gas? Some military observers believe the Germans could have won World War I at Ypres on April 22, 1915, when they first introduced gas in large-scale modern combat, when the stunned British and French Colonial troops choked, fell and fled as clouds of chlorine boiled into their trenches...
...than the Navy chuffed up with its own report. "Direct and sole" cause of the fire, a Navy Court of Inquiry solemnly ruled, was "gross carelessness and utter violation of rules of common sense" by Robins Dry Dock employes. Full responsibility, the Navy grumped, belonged there. Recommendation: to sue Robins for damages to the full extent of liability...
...probably know as much about the story already, even if you haven't seen the picture or the show, as you do about Alexander Woolcott's glee in having a play written about his thousand-and-one ways to lose friends and alienate people. If he doesn't sue the authors for libel, he has either a magnificent sense of humor or such atrocious manners that he deserves having Kaufmann and Hart throw verbal darts...