Word: sues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the two outraged property owners sued Sherman for damages in Maine's superior court. Elliott's caretaker testified that he had heard Sherman tell his caretaker: "Cut the trees. To hell with them. Let 'em sue. All they can get is the cost of the trees and we'll have a clear view of the ocean." Elliott appraised his trees at only $2,800, and Mrs. Collin figured hers were worth $1,350. But the jury was outraged. It increased the damages to $5,000 apiece, then found that the damage had been done...
...Mexican payoff was only a prelude. It opened the way for every disgruntled player to sue baseball in the federal courts on the basis that the reserve clause violates the anti-trust laws. And now Congressman Emmanuel Caller, an old friend of Happy Chandler's, has decided to parade the whole issue before a House committee in order to decide it "once and for all." Some people see in this move a last minute attempt by retiring Commissioner Chandler to prove his indispensible political influence. Whatever the lawmakers may say, the reserve clause is essential. Without it, signing of contracts...
Pentagon officers, fired with optimism (and zeal for the Truman Administration's wait-and-see policy in Korea), freely predicted that the Chinese Reds would soon be exhausted and would sue for peace. But even with exhaustion, the Reds had another choice. They could stop spilling their own blood, retire beyond the waist of Korea, around the 40th parallel, and sit there...
Audience Reaction. In Miami, Mrs. Ethel Sue Kaye sued for divorce, charged that her disc-jockey husband criticized her cooking on the air, referred to their "socalled honeymoon...
...whit abashed by such rebuffs, Little Orvie threatened to sue anyone who signed a petition against him. But beyond that, Orvie betrayed little anxiety, even though the recall movement had been touched off by one of his own awful political blunders. He had jealously refused to let the Ford Motor Co. (which employs a fourth of Dearborn's population) donate a $4,500,000 hospital to the city presumably because Ford had insisted on making its gift through the Greater Detroit Hospital Fund instead of letting Little Orvie handle matters directly...