Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, the Government's civil suit to recover the Teapot Dome oil reserves is now pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, while the criminal suit charging Messrs. Sinclair and Fall with fraud is floundering through vexing preliminaries in a lower court...
Under a sharp, shrewd, cocky jaw, a lanky loon in a striped suit might have been bashing a smaller, silk-hatted maniac into cross-eyed insensibility...
These words, spoken in a suite at the Book Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, by an industrious Jew, Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, marked the end of the first week of a libel suit. Mr. Sapiro wants to vindicate his race and, incidentally, to obtain $1,000,000 in damages from Mr. Ford for certain articles published in the Dearborn Independent in 1924-25, which pictured a national menace in Mr. Sapiro's farm organization activities (TIME, March...
There is something unfair about the proposition. Florida has a climate, it has bathing beauties, palm trees, the cocoanut grove--many things which Connecticut has not. In Florida one may meet Jimmy Walker in a bathing suit. Billie Burke in a house-apron, movie stars in Rolls-Royces--none of which graces the Connecticut landscape. And now to be deprived of the hibernating elephants--it appears there is no justice...
...worth of foodstuffs annually. No doubt, Mr. Sapiro has made a tidy profit from these ventures; no doubt, other Jews as well as farmers have shared. But Mr. Sapiro believes that Mr. Ford's magazine has slandered him and hurt his business. Hence, he filed suit in 1925 to collect $1,000,000 from Mr. Ford. Last week that suit went before the U. S. District Court in Detroit. It may last five weeks or five months. Mr. Sapiro's underlying purposes are three: 1) to put Henry Ford through a thoroughgoing grilling on the witness stand...