Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearings opened William B. Shearer himself, in a smart blue suit with a doublebreasted waistcoat and a red-striped necktie sat in. the front row. Beside him sat his New York lawyer, Daniel Florence Cohalan. Promptly Mr. Cohalan protested that Mr. Shearer should be called first to the stand. Senator Shortridge overruled him. First witness was Clinton Lloyd Bardo, President of New York Shipbuilding Co., subsidiary of American Brown Boveri. He told of a conference in which Shearer had been hired to go to Geneva: "The instructions were that he was to go as an observer and report...
...much less likely to be scared out of his wits when a ship is in danger." Declaring that his own Lloyd Sabaudo Line had at once begun to teach their crews English and aquatics, Dr. Serrati intimated that all the major Italian carriers would at once follow suit. "Our crews in squads of 25," he said, "will be taught English daily in their mess rooms while our vessels are at sea, and in the ballrooms while the vessels are in port...
...founded the business which is now Fashion Park. At the same time one Nathan Stein founded another Rochester wholesale tailoring business which became Stein-Bloch, Inc. Together they grew, prospered. In time, so excellent became their clothes that retailers saw advantage in breaking the custom which demanded that a suit bear only the retailer's label. Thereafter the name Stein-Bloch or Fashion Park appeared with the retailer's name on the inside breast pocket of many a U. S. citizen's suit. Prominent among retailers to adopt this new policy were Manhattan's Weber & Heilbroner...
When Convict Burns was returned to Georgia, the wife who sent him there was implicitly condemned by the press for jealousy and revenge on the strength of Burns's story in the American. Last week Mrs. Burns, through Attorney Theodore William Miller of Chicago, filed libel suit against the American. Shrewd, she did not ask millions (as is usually the case ) for the destruction of an obscure reputation. She asked only $100,000, on the following charges: 1) aiding and abetting Convict Burns to "falsely and maliciously set himself up as a hero who was greatly wronged by his wife...
Sidi Wirt Spreckels Chakir, in Reno to divorce Turkish Prince Suad Bey Chakir, heard that she had won a $5,000 damage suit against Egyptian Princess Chivekar who had named her in a divorce suit. Born on a Kansas Farm, Sidi Wirt married and divorced Harry Williams, Kansas City newspaperman, married Sugarman John D. Spreckels, inherited his estate, married Prince Chakir in Constantinople in 1923, has figured in Eu- ropean news as Cabaret Dancer Saida Worth, lately as Mme. Saida...