Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effort to make clear his position to Platon, the temporary Archbishop, that he had suffered his humiliating contact with the asphalt. Archbishop Platon had simply clapped his hands and shouted in Russian: "Throw him out!" The disgruntled Kedrovsky, a naturalized U. S. citizen, at once filed suit against Archbishop Platon. Thus began an interminable, ludicrous and involved dispute (TIME...
...from the Soviet Government, Bishop William T. Manning called loudly upon Christian Churches to support Platon, the anti-Bolshevik. A new claimant arose in one Adam Phillipovsky, a big, bearded man with a voice that could make the windows of a church or a police-court shiver. He entered suit to obtain the Cathedral and all that went with it. Convinced that by this piece of deference to the curious laws of a quaint country, all that he wanted had automatically accrued to him, he enlisted a Bomb Squad from the Manhattan Police Department, stormed the Cathedral, ousted Platon much...
Meanwhile John S. Kedrovsky was living quietly in Hartford, Conn., and his suit was filtering slowly through wadded files of legal red tape. Last week it trickled into the attention of the New York Appellate Court, which declared that there was no doubt of his authorization by the Holy Russian Synod. Accordingly, the court reinstated him and declared that the claims of bellowing Bishop Adam, Plaintiff Platon, and all other Russian-American archbishops, were null, void. Said Kedrovsky's lawyer...
...Until very recently the Reserve Banks of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland and San Francisco were holding their rediscount rates at 3½%, while the remaining seven* maintained a 4% rate. Suddenly the Boston institution led off with an advance to 4% (TIME, Nov. 23), and Cleveland almost immediately followed suit. Then the Philadelphia Bank directors met behind closed doors, and afterwards refused to make any announcements about what they had done. New York and San Francisco were still in the group...
...shaving age when he was working his way through business school by selling typewriters. Other photographs pursued him from his first connection with the Standard Oil Co. as a stenographer in Oil City, Pa., through the occasion when he notably defended the Company against the Government's dissolution suit, to his appointment to the vice-presidency...