Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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lien was for $17.166 taxes on Gangster Capone's 1926-29 income. Next day in Jacksonville Mrs. Capone entered suit against the Federal Government through J. Edwin Larsen, collector of internal revenue in Florida, for $52,103 which she claimed was unjustly collected from her to pay her husband's back taxes after he was found guilty of tax evasion in 1931. Mrs. Capone said she was not responsible for her husband's taxes. When his ig-year-old step-daughter Dorothy returned to his Salt Lake City house at midnight, 80-year-old Hiram Dempsey...
...liquidation of the company, which would enable them to salvage their own equities while the common stockholders went begging. Led by Richard King Mellon, his sister, Mrs. David K. E. Bruce, and Mellon friends including Aluminum Co. of America's President Roy Arthur Hunt, they brought suit against the company's management. Pittsburgh United's President John Hartwell Hillman Jr., who is also president of an investment company which held a block of 130,900 shares of Pittsburgh United common, fought the action tooth & nail. In 1932 a compromise was reached by which a redemption...
...short of its original value of $16,000,000. Since Big Steel was expected to resume payments on its common within a year, Pittsburgh United's common stockholders fought frantically to have the liquidation date postponed. The preferred holders' answer to this was another suit, brought this time not by a committee but by the trustee, Peoples-Pittsburgh Trust...
Some time later a farmer was milking his cows when a gaunt, pleasant man with flowing hair, wearing a damaged white suit, stepped into his barn and said, "Good morning!" This was Jean Piccard, stratosphere balloonist, twin brother of Balloonist Auguste Piccard. Once a chemist for Hercules Powder Co., Jean Piccard is now in the aeronautical engineering department of the University of Minnesota, usually manages _ to find advertisers who will pay for his flights. This particular morning he made a landing of sorts after a flight sponsored by the Rochester Kiwanis Club in a unique apparatus...
Lawyers pondered the possible legal harvest of Mr. Mae West's suit. Under California law, property, except gifts, acquired by either husband or wife after marriage becomes community property, owned half & half by either spouse. Mae West's 1935 income was $480,000. Her current worth, mostly acquired since the 1911 wedding, is estimated as $3,000,000. Mae West's husband might not be tall, dark nor handsome but the inside of his head was apparently not as bald as the outside. He had said he wished to vindicate his honor, money was of secondary moment...