Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week it became known that Henry Ford for the first time in many years had been reached by a minion of the law. Result: he was scheduled to appear next week in federal court, Grand Rapids, to defend a $1,000,000 libel suit brought by famed farm-organizer, Aaron Sapiro, Jew, of Chicago. Inconspicuously, came news that Senator Reed had been retained as Mr. Ford's chief counsel. Ford-Reed-the hyphen would certainly not injure Presidential-Candidate Reed...
...suit of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Plaintiff in Error v. the State of Kansas was thrown out of the U. S. Supreme Court last week for lack of jurisdiction. Hence, the decision of the lower court stands. This decision says that no foreign corporation, whether organized for profit or charity, can carry on any activities in the State of Kansas without the consent of the State Charter Board-except such corporations as are protected by the interstate commerce clause of the Federal Constitution. The significance: many another state may follow Kansas' legal action in ousting...
Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer immediately announced, last week, that Britain will accept what amounts to a "hand out" from France. Should the U. S. follow suit a most important precedent would be created, a precedent greatly to the advantage of France, who might come to adopt the policy of "handing out" to her creditors what and when the French Premier may please...
...louts who yesterday would not have noticed a sweeper of floors, a scrubber of steps. She burned everything without opening an envelope. Half of them were begging letters, too; boasts from dressmakers, stores offering credit, lawyers offering advice. . . . Marie Drazdorf spent some of her savings for a new suit for her boy, but she told her man, Josef Raff, to keep on working like the steady man he was. They would wait for the fortune to come in July. Then she would give some money to Butcher Bachmann, who had been kind when she had her baby. Then they would...
...parts profits were $80,000,000. Now there are 12,000,000 Fords on the road which need supplies. Wealthy Fools. It is "folly to make fools wealthy," Henry Ford told his inventor, Italian-born Antonio Felix Pajalich, asserts the inventor in a $1,750,000 royalty suit filed at Detroit. Labor. In the Ford plants the assistance of skilled labor was not needed in 1913, nor is it needed today, said Leone Faurote, engineer. A common laborer can be trained to operate the machinery in three days. In some instances all a man has to know is the difference...