Search Details

Word: suits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...long distance Bell Telephone operator last week plugged a Detroit and Chicago office into connection. In the Chicago office was Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, organizer of farmers' co-operative associations, who had a $1,000,000 libel suit pending against Henry Ford (TIME, March 21, 28). Interconnected with his office telephone so that his long distance talk with Detroit could be witnessed were the telephones of his associates and representatives of Mr. Ford. In the Detroit office was a similar arrangement. The telephone of Clifford B. Longley, general counsel for the Ford Motor Co. was "hooked up" with those of Lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: No Jewish Ring | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...Hills half of the scandal. By a unanimous decision of the U. S. Supreme Court (Feb. 28, 1927) the Doheny lease on the Elk Hills naval oil reserve was declared invalid and the property was restored to the U. S. Government. This decision settled the Government's civil suit to recover the lands leased by Mr. Fall. Meanwhile, on Dec. 16, 1926, the Government's criminal prosecution of Messrs. Fall and Doheny had failed when a jury in the District of Columbia Supreme Court aquitted the accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Paired Again | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...only the Teapot Dome portion of the oil investigation remained unsettled. The Government's civil suit to recover the property is still pending before the U. S. Supreme Court. The Government's criminal suit against Messrs. Fall and Sinclair is to be tried on Oct. 17 in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. When these two decisions should be reached, it appeared that the Oil Scandals would then become definitely a matter of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Paired Again | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...Hills-Dome half-brothers became paired again. For though Messrs. Fall and Doheny had been acquitted on a charge of conspiracy, there still remained against them indictments for bribery. Fall-Doheny attorneys had attacked the validity of these indictments after the U. S. Supreme Court's civil suit decision that the transfer of the Elk Hills lease from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior (1921) had been illegal. The lawyers claimed that, assuming that this transfer was illegal, Mr. Fall had no authority to deal with Mr. Doheny on the leasing question. And in a previous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Paired Again | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...Referring to Mr. Ford's testimony in his $1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Tribune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Apology to Jews | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

Previous | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | Next