Word: sues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given in Dry Messiah alone, most readers will probably conclude that he was guilty as charged by church and state. But thousands of prohibitionists were ready to accept the denials of the man who had done so much to whip the saloon. Cannon's favorite tactic was to sue his detractors for huge amounts in libel suits that he tried to settle for small amounts out of court. In his day he sued a Congressman for $500,000 and William Randolph Hearst for a total of $7,500,000. He lost the one, settled the Hearst suits...
...College of the City of New York on the grounds that Russell's writings were "lecherous, salacious . . . lustful." Last week Goldstein took off on another joust: unless two books which he considered "a menace" were banned from classrooms and public-school libraries within five days, he threatened to sue the Board of Education. The two books were Oliver Twist (the British film version of which has been withheld from U.S. movie theaters as a result of protests from Jewish groups-TIME, Oct. 4) and The Merchant of Venice...
Class of 1950--President--Jane Rainie, Janet Stewart, Lucia Toscano; Vice-President--Lucia Cate, Anne Rodriguez, Barbara Tuttle; Secretary--Nina Emerson, Sue Eastabrooks, Hope Ingersoll; Treasurer--Katharine Chase, Pat Hartford, Marjorie Otten; Council Representative--Sue Evans, Carol Frasor, Deirdre O'Brien, Barbara Samuel, Enid Trinkle...
Class of 1951--President--John Bresnahan, Judith Frost, Katherine Mathews, Carol Smith; Vice-President-- Baila Cohen, Lee Hurd, Rona Jaffe; Secretary--Ann Harrer, Meimel Robinson, Marllyn Welch; Treasurer --Alfreda Cuik, Helon Wolfe, Marie Woolaver; Council Representative--Mary Brandt, Sheila Brown, Rosemary Cochran, Sue Mulloy, Letitia Young...
Committee members contend that the theater management has acted illegally and will ask it to end all restrictions on HLU programs. If no settlement can be made, then HLU will sue the theater for damages and seek an injunction against future pressure on distributors. However, the committee declined to reveal what form legal action will take...