Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First of a series of Lincoln films in what Hollywood freely predicts will be Lincoln's greatest year, Young Mr. Lincoln was spotlighted during production by a restraining suit. Robert Emmet Sherwood and his partners in Playwrights Producing Co. Inc. filed the suit on the ground that there was more than coincidence in the similarity in name to Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Broadway hit to be filmed this summer with Raymond Massey). Darryl Zanuck parried that by producing a memo proving that Lincoln was in his thoughts as far back...
...years in Leavenworth. After leaving prison the second time (he had been sent to Sing Sing for a securities deal in 1912), dapper Jules W. Arndt Stein tried the advertising business in Manhattan, was divorced, remarried, ended up in a Los Angeles air-conditioning firm. Last week he filed suit against Producer Zanuck, Actor Power, et aL, seeking an injunction against further showings of Rose of Washington Square, $250,000 damages. Mr. Arndt Stein huffed .hat Actor Power portrayed him not only as a coward, weakling and swindler, but as a faithless husband to boot. If Nicky gets his nick...
Subject to suit for a faulty registration statement are all the directors or partners in the firm issuing the securities, all the experts who attest to its accuracy, all the underwriters who float the issue. Last week a batch of these gentlemen was ordered in New York supreme court to stand and deliver. Among five so ordered was Charles H. Sabin Jr., eminently respectable son of the late president of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust...
...shares of Austin Silver in March 1937. It was between $2.50 and $3. By the end of the year it had dropped to a dismal 871/2?. But while the price went downhill, the four had no intention of going on a sleigh ride with it. They brought suit for the difference between the purchase price and the price on the day they filed the petition. They contended that Section 11 had been violated because the registration statement failed to mention options on the stock given to underwriters...
...still heads the companies that sell the world these many devices ought to be a multimillionaire, but last week three creditors filed suit to put him in bankruptcy. For, outside of manufacturing, Ben Bendix, now 58, has had reverses since 1929. Among them...