Word: suits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close to 100° F. In the House it was a comfortable 70° F. The House has a modern cooling system, the Senate's is not yet installed. With electric fans out of commission. Senators puffed, perspired, languished in linens. Leader Watson, clad in a light grey suit, wearing white silk socks and blancoed shoes, mopped his head with a handkerchief and wearily remarked: "I always try to be good natured." The Senate's behavior on Farm Relief (see p. 13) reflected small, if any, credit upon the Watson leadership. Twice had he failed to stem...
Leader Watson's troubles were not confined to the Senate, where only a minority seemed willing to follow him. In Indianapolis last week he was made a defendant in a $50,000 damage suit growing out of his alleged membership in the Ku Klux Klan...
Newsmen wrote. They told how, after a gentle suggestion from a bold photographer, the strikingly handsome Banker Morgan had shifted to a more advantageous position on the deck. They praised the amiable Morgan disposition. They described the Morgan apparel (grey lounge suit, grey fedora). Finally, they related the general Morgan conversation, which was not on Reparations, but on his Mediterranean cruise aboard his yacht Corsair. Of his yachting guest, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, Banker Morgan told the newsmen...
...Negroes, dressed in purple silks, gold brocade, fancy headdress, strutted as members of the Ancient Egyptian Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. That their name and regalia were quite similar to that of the White Shriners,* bothered them not at all, until White Shriners charged imitation, brought suit against them. Four Texas Courts decided against the Negroes. They became worried. But, last week, Negro Shriners puffed out their chests, secure in the knowledge that their parading would never be stopped. For the U. S. Supreme Court held that White Shriners had been guilty of "laches," decided in favor...
...when gross annual earnings had reached the sum of $10,000,000. Mr. Titus brought suit against Burnee Corp. His claim: That transfer of stock to the new company in 1915 was made without his consent and in violation of his rights. His demand: That he be given an accounting of and a share in the profits. The decision: New York Supreme Court Justice Peter A. Hatting held that Plaintiff Titus could not share in the millions he had refused to help build up. Justice Hatting pointed out that Plaintiff Titus knew of the transfer of stock rights...