Word: suite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Federal Grand Juries indicted The Kansas City Journal-Post and The New York Herald-Tribune. Of these, the Journal-Post was chosen because, being privately owned and edited by one Walter S. Dickey, the suit would determine the rights of an individual under the tax-publicity law. The Herald-Tribune was chosen because it was the leading Administration organ in the biggest U. S. metropolis and its prosecution would clear the Administration of any charges of partisan discrimination...
After the funeral ceremony, Lord Allenby, attired in a lounge suit, left the Residency in an automobile, which was followed by a troop of cavalry. His square-set jaw announced to those who saw him that he meant business; and those who had served with him in Palestine knew that when Lord Allenby means business something happens...
...based on a delicate episode in the composer's private life. During one of his absences, a letter had arrived at his home from a "bar-lady," asking for two tickets he had promised her for the next performance at the opera. Frau Strauss, choleric spouse, promptly entered suit for divorce. It was some time before the Strauss household was brought back to pacific union by the admission of one of the composer's colleagues that the letter had really been intended...
...should, however, be pointed out that these decisions must not be taken as definite in their application to the rights of preferred stockholders under the charter and by-laws of all companies and the statutes of all states. In this connection, it is interesting to note that already a suit has been commenced by, among others, the trustees of the Langhorne estate in Richmond, Va., to enjoin the directors of the Southern Railway from paying further dividends on the common stock of that company until preferred stockholders have been paid all dividends in arrears...
...Budapest, Hungarian capital, the Supreme Court began to hear the suit over Count Karolyi's property, confiscated by order of two lower courts on the grounds of high treason and lese-majest...