Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Preus advocated organized study of their problems; Senator Capper declared that the farmers were ruined by manipulators of wheat prices, saying "the Chicago Board of Trade has become the world's greatest gambling place" (John R. Mauff, executive Vice President of the Board of Trade, threatened to bring suit for Senator Capper's "defamation of character" of the Board's 1,598 members); Julius H. Barnes warned the farmers against the fallacy of price fixing; Senator Copeland advised everybody to eat another slice of bread for breakfast...
...years ago the Chicago Tribune made unkind remarks about Henry Ford, and the supermechanic sued the Tribune for libel. In the course of Mr. Ford's testimony at the trial Tribune lawyers found that he did not differentiate between Arnold Bennett and Benedict Arnold. But Mr. Ford won the suit and at his own request took six cents in damages...
...Government, through the Department of Justice, is suing the Chemical Foundation, Inc. (a Delaware Corporation) for German patents confiscated during the War and sold to that Company. The suit, being held before Federal Judge Hugh M. Morris at Wilmington, Del., involves many technical details?4,000 pages of typewritten testimony were taken in ten days...
...Governor Cox been elected President in 1920, the French would not be in the Ruhr in 1923. . . . The real cause (of the controversy) is the fear of Frenchmen that when Germany is in condition to pay she will also be in condition to discontinue payment and, should it suit her plans, to invade France again...
Engaged. Baron James Henri de Rothschild, " handsome, young banker," who has been studying in America, to Mile. Claudia Dupont, French debutante. (A $500,000 breach of promise suit instituted by Mile. Marie Porquet against Baron de Rothschild in the New York Supreme Court has been withdrawn...