Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Atheists v. Chaplains. Publicity-seeking perhaps, religious conviction certainly, last week led the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism to file suit in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to prevent the Government from paying chaplains attached to the Senate and House and the Army and Navy. The chaplains have had as yet no opportunity to rebut this unexpected attack upon their long-established functionings...
...have arranged a suit against the Watch and Ward Society and against the agents who sell my magazines to the news dealers. I intend that the suits shall establish the principles upon which Chase shall be permitted to operate in the future, or I intend that he shall be shown to have no ground to stand on. If he wins, I shall at least have the satisfaction of the knowledge that his activities are opened to public gaze...
...give you an instance. In negotiating the debt settlement with one of the smaller nations, it was shown that the minimum of existence in that country, a scale at-which the bulk of the peasants are now living, was $31 per man per year. This included no meat, one suit of clothes and one pair of sandals a year. Think what it would mean in the aggregate to us to have that country be able to increase the standard of living there so as to include meat once a week, a cotton shirt once a month, and another pair...
...hours later for Europe. Her season's earnings were estimated at approximately $120,000 -$60,000 for 16 weeks of opera at the Metropolitan, $40,000 for concerts, $20,000 from Victor record royalties and additional "items." She directed that any damages recovered from her $25,000 suit against the Cohen Brothers, cigar manufacturers of the Bronx, for using her name on a cigar band, be given to charity...
...arrest of Felix 'aragianes, proprietor of Felix' newsstand on Harvard Square, is the latest stop in the suppression of the April number of the American Mercury. He was arranged in court yesterday morning to answer to preliminary action in a criminal suit against him, but the case was dismissed for two weeks...