Word: suits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Bradlaugh has won his suit before Chief Justice Coleridge against Mr. Newdegate...
...donation of a "quarter" or "half" will give. The ingenious devices resorted to are worthy of admiration. At one time an extra dollar is needed to pay the month's rent; again, a pitiful story of a dying child is used to work upon our sympathies. Furthermore, he can suit his conversation to the tastes of his auditors. On Washington's Birthday and Decoration Day he sympathizes with us and bewails the cruelty of the faculty in not giving us a holiday, at the same time hinting that he expects to take a little vacation himself, and that a slight...
...attorney-general of New York has granted a hearing on an application made to him by Joseph P. Greaves, to bring suit in the name of the people against the Western Union Telegraph Co., to vacate its charter and remove the directors...
Such a method would in this university suit the Finance Club. The instruction here in political economy is given in three courses, and with such a meagre amount of time devoted to each of the many problems of that subject, it is impossible for us to have a satisfactory explanation of all of them, or to become acquainted thoroughly with the details of those that we comprehend perfectly. The Finance Club has a splendid field of usefulness before it. It ought to fill out the work of its department by having frequent and active discussions on different questions in political...
...York city courts Rev. Thomas B. Conway has begun a suit against Justin D. Fulton for $40,000 damages for libel, and also to recover $400 salary...