Word: suits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Senate trial was balked, the Governor, in a white linen suit, held a reception in his office beneath the Senate Chamber. Admirers swarmed about, demanded his autograph. He gave it thus: "Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana by the grace of the people...
Zbyszko v. Hearst. Stanislaus Zbyszko, ponderous wrestler, filed a $250,000 suit against Publisher William Randolph Hearst's New York American. Reason: The American had printed a gorilla's picture side-by-side with that of Wrestler Zbyszko; had commented: "Stanislaus Zbyszko ... is not fundamentally different from the gorilla in physique." Wrestler Zbyszko complained that since the event he had been "shunned and avoided by his wife, relatives, neighbors, associates and other persons...
...Automotive Daily News. On May 15, Automotive Daily News, automobile trade paper, published a story concerning an alleged new Reo eight. Reo Motor Car Co. promptly filed suit for one million dollars libel, calling the story "utterly false and without foundation." Reo's President Richard H. Scott took a page advertisement in metropolitan dailies to denounce the "pastime of originating and circulating falsehoods about motor industry," and improved the opportunity to cheer for the Reo six and to flay eights in general. He has seen no eight as good...
...First Suit. Five tributaries of the Delaware River, which flows through New Jersey, rise in New York. New York, declares New Jersey, is now planning to construct dams and reservoirs to turn much of the water from those five tributaries to its own use. New Jersey would prevent New York from so doing...
...Second Suit. New York City deposits its rubbish, its refuse, its garbage in the Atlantic Ocean, most of which eventually reaches New Jersey's shoals, white-sand beaches. New Jersey would prevent New York from so littering its bathing grounds...