Word: suit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accusation that Hiss had been a Communist, Chambers took him up on it. Two nights later, on the radio, he repeated the charge, in effect challenging Hiss to sue him for libel or slander (TIME, Sept. 6). Last week Hiss took Chambers' dare, filed a $50,000 suit in Baltimore's Federal Court, charged that Chambers' statements were "untrue, false and defamatory." Said Chambers: "I welcome Mr. Hiss's daring suit . . . But I do not believe that Mr. Hiss or anybody else can use the means of justice to defeat the ends of justice...
...Blue Suit Again. By midweek, the city fathers called in strikebreakers. They, too, encountered trouble. Idling strikers pointed scornfully at the newcomers' clumsy technique. Pretty, smartly dressed Communist Deputy Maria Luisa Cinciari-Rodano led 15 strikers' wives into battle against a detachment of volunteer garbage collectors. With resounding cries of "traitors!" and "robbers of bread!", Signora Rodano charged the unhappy scavengers...
...captured broom from the fray. At week's end, the street cleaners scornfully rejected an offer of a 10,000-lire bonus, held out for 15,000, Palmiro Togliatti appeared in the Chamber of Deputies. He wore his suavest air and his famous blue, double-breasted serge suit. Said he piously: "Parliament is the center of democratic life and it is bound to a concept of tolerance between men who fight for their own ideas...
...Gorgeous George" looked his best in a grey double-breasted suit. At his side stood his handsome, smartly tailored wife Fiorenza (TIME, June 7), who said over & over: "I leave the issues to George." George took good care of the issues. His own man, Frederick G. Gardiner (another Toronto lawyer), was running the platform committee...
Tuckered Tucker. Though Preston Tucker said he had made only 28 cars, he still had $8,446,206 in current assets (against $2,237,402 current liabilities), he told a U.S. district court in Chicago, in a stockholder's suit for receivership. But the biggest listed asset turned out to be $3,649,770 in promissory notes which Tucker dealers had signed to buy franchises. He listed only $1,888,749 in cash and Government bonds left, out of the approximate $20 million he had raised on stock and franchises...