Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently Chicago's first mixed jury in Federal court-six men, six women, five of them members of the League of Women Voters-sat to hear a suit over a will of Attorney Samuel J. Howe, which cut off his son and left his $70,000 estate to Northwestern University. Son Willard C. Howe contested...
...children figured largely in her scheme to gain more power. One daughter (Marie) she married to Yugoslavia; another (Elizabeth) to Greece. She hoped that a third (Ileana) would marry Bulgaria, but King Boris did not press his suit when it was gossiped about that Ileana was Prince Stirbey's, and not King Ferdinand's, daughter. Through her daughters Queen Marie hoped to exert powerful influence throughout the Balkans; through her eldest son she planned on ruling Rumania...
...between the notes: Word has slipped through that Benny Pollack, famous old Dixieland band leader, has sued Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby and various other people for swiping some of his arrangements, "Bugle Call Rag" being mentioned specifically. This may or may not be true. But, if this sort of suit is going to be the fashion, most of the country's better band leaders are going to end up behind the bars. It's been the custom for sometime to swipe ideas from everyone on standard tunes such as "Bugle Call Rag"...Artie Shaw has been sued for another...
...rally, Richard M. Russell '14 termed his opponent in the mayoralty campaign, Mayer John W. Lyons, a "waster, libeler, and slanderer," and called upon the voters to save Cambridge from "bankruptcy and ruin." Lyons recently lost a $12,000 libel suit to John D. Lynch whom he had libelously attacked...
Early this year, 79 stockholders brought a stockholders' suit against the Breeze management, applied for a receiver for the company. They did not sue Vice President Young. Some of their more colorful charges...