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Word: suiting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better keep it as it is, thin and full of the choicest meat. We can get all the bulk we want elsewhere. While I can't say that TIME is perfect, why should I expect it to be made to suit my personal tastes? You strike a good average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 1, 1926 | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...most detached, most solitary, least worldly men in public life," when a majority of his fellows of the U. S. Supreme Court upheld the power of the President to remove post-masters and other statutory Federal officials. This vital decision was made last week in a suit brought by the late Frank S. Myers to recover back pay for the full period of his appointment as Portland, Ore., Postmaster. President Wilson had removed him without a hearing and without the consent of the Senate. The Court said last week that he could not get his pay: he was legally ousted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Vital Decision | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...have been worth millions, and Mr. Garvan is now president of the Chemical Foundation. But Alexander Mitchell Palmer, previous (1917-1919) Alien Property Custodian had been empowered during his office by the President to make the sale though the transaction was not effected until Mr. Garvan's regime. Suit to recover was brought by President Harding's administration, under agency of Harry Micajah Daugherty, then Attorney General. The Supreme Court is convinced that the purpose of the Chemical Foundation in acquiring the patents was "one to promote the Americanization of the dye and chemical industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Supreme Court | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...reporting the threat of suit by Mr. Thomas Taggart of French Lick, Ind., against Novelist Edna Ferber for the implication in her book Show Boat that he was a gambler, TIME stated erroneously that Miss Ferber was sued in 1922 by her "onetime Chicago Landlady" for allegedly libelous character drawing in the novel So Big (TIME, Sept. 13). The injured person was a onetime friend and hostess of Miss Ferber's; the suit was never brought, merely talked about, the lady fancying she saw herself in the married woman with whom the young hero fell in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Erratum | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...Government has already won in both the Federal District Court at Los Angeles and in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco, in its other civil suit to annul Edward L. Doheny leases of the Elk Hills naval oil reserves in California. Last week this case went before the Supreme Court for final decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Teapot Dome | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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