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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poker players without Reader Collins' capacity for arithmetic, the five-suit deck opened vistas...
...Chicago, oldtime Actress Edna Wallace Hopper appeared in Federal District Court to prosecute a suit for $230,000 in back salary and damages against various cosmetic manufacturers whose products she has publicized. When Judge Patrick Stone insisted that she give her age, Miss Hopper-looking except at close range not a day over 35-wrote a figure on a piece of paper, handed it to him. The judge's eyebrows shot toward the ceiling. The figure (if it agreed with the date of her birth in Who's Who in the Theater...
Last week counsel for the defunct magazine, with the fear of the Lord Chief Justice in their hearts, decided not to risk a trial. The suit was publicly settled out of court. Author, proprietor, publisher and printer agreed to pay Shirley Temple $10,000, to hand over an additional $7,500 to Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., producers of Wee Willie Winkie. It was announced that the $17,500, when collected, would go to charity...
Promptly Publisher Block demanded a retraction. He got only a few meagre words of regret. Doggedly bent on satisfaction, Mr. Block instituted a $900,000 libel suit against the Nation and Mr. Allen. Up to this week no paper had published news of the action, for both plaintiff and defendants neatly avoided publicity by keeping the complaint out of court. If Mr. Block hoped that quietly starting suit against the Nation-which would be flattered if anyone thought it had $900,000- would smoke out a retraction, he guessed wrong. Last week the Nation's attorneys, most famed...
...most important case-the test of the constitutionality of the registration requirement of the Public Utility Act of 1935. By a vote of 6-to-1 (sick Justice Cardozo and Freshman Justice Reed not participating; Justice McReynolds, as expected, dissenting) the Court upheld SEC in its test suit against Electric Bond & Share...