Word: suit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with her indiscriminate use of "boloney." Once she surprised Sir Eric Drummond (now Lord Perth) by saying "Oakie doak, Sir Eric!" Her first-born child, Fabrizio, she nicknamed the "Little Chink." She caused an uproar at a full-dress diplomatic dinner in Peking by showing up in a tailored suit while her husband wore a dinner coat...
...poised his ax over the cinema industry, Hollywood feared that if he were paid too much he would be resented as a last-minute Pocahontas. Jimmy Roosevelt has stayed as far away from the antitrust prosecutions as possible, although he was named as a defendant in the Goldwyn suit. He has served as Goldwyn representative on the board of United Artists and as Mr. Goldwyn's liaison with his New York sales and distribution organization. He easily earned a year's salary by his successful European promotion trip for Wuthering Heights, highlighted by a Paris premiere at which...
...from Greenwich Village (one planned to exercise his U. S. freedom of initiative to become a prizefighter) and Italian-born New York City Treasurer Commendatore Almerindo Portfolio, who rose from a $2-a-week messenger to the presidency of the Bank of Sicily and the head of a cloak & suit concern (which in 1924 he gave to six employes). Commendatore Portfolio's talk was rapturous, anti-nobody, fairly brief...
...smart young men tried to make a forest by presenting a 291-page brief, for Judge Caffey to digest while the defense was in process. He needed a good digestion. With 159 court days behind it, the Alcoa case was last week already the longest trust-busting suit in U. S. history. Only comparable suits in duration and importance were the 50-day prosecution of the Sugar Institute in 1933, the 120-day prosecution which resulted in the dissolution of the old Standard Oil Co. in 1911, and the 31-day prosecution which resulted in breaking up the tobacco trust...
...Alcoa suit's long-distance mark for consecutive testimony was set last spring by Edward K. Davis, publicity-shy president of Aluminium Limited of Canada. Younger brother (59) of Alcoa's Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, Mr. Davis held the stand for six and a half weeks while the Government went after him hammer & tongs trying to show that Aluminium Ltd. is not a separate, independent corporation, but an international stooge set up by Alcoa. When he was finally excused, Harvardman Davis was glad to get back to his 400-acre estate on Cape Cod, where he raises...