Word: suits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week he went home, carrying two mementos. One was a set of complimentary resolutions tendered him by admiring jurors; the other was notice of a $50,000 slander suit brought against him by Attorney F. R. Serri of Brooklyn, no admirer. And as he entrained for Texas, echoes of indignation from New York's Negro districts filled his ears...
Chief Justice Taft replied that he had no jurisdiction to review the complaint. Attorney Serri, still undaunted, continued action with the slander suit, "as a test case ... to call the attention of the legal profession to the need of disciplinary power to punish judges for contempt of lawyers...
Clearly the League could not define a doctrine which U. S. statesmen have so often stretched or shrunk to suit their convenience, since 1823, when it was vaguely stated by U. S. President James Monroe (1817-25). Sometimes the Doctrine is shrunk to mean little more than that the U. S. will attempt to discourage European intermeddling in Latin America. Occasionally it is stretched to cover U. S. intermeddling in Latin America of a sort which Europeans call "frankly imperialistic...
...Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis from running a gasoline station in a restricted quarter of the town, he opened his mouth, campaigned for Mayor of Newburyport, got elected (TIME, Jan. 16). He "fired" the officials who had annoyed him and went ahead with his gasoline station. But neighbors pressed their suit and last week Mayor Gillis,was sentenced, by a county judge, to 330 days in jail and a fine of $1,140. "This man is an outlaw," said the judge, who some years ago had sentenced the man for mouthing profanities in public...
...overseen by newsgatherers clutching shorthand pads and cinema cranks. Perhaps, some day, contact between the People and their servants can be maintained directly, by colored-wireless-television or something. Then, at scheduled moments during the day or week, the Nominee can simply take off his invisible-silencing-suit or whatever device has been provided for his privacy, and, face-to-face and mouth-to-ear with the whole electorate, can simply say: "Good morning, everybody. I'm feeling fine today. I had a good sleep and prunes for breakfast, thank you. As you can see, the weather...