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Word: suits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration's feeble grip on important Rules, which Messrs. Dies, Dempsey (New Mexico) and Cor (Georgia) ran pretty much to suit themselves during the hearings. At one point poor old Chairman Sabath was nearly in tears as he banged on the table and shouted: "Don't do this! Don't do this! Gentlemen, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Figure | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Washingtonian had been published with the required statutory notice of copyright. When Mrs. Blair Banister, The Washingtonian's ex-publisher, learned how things stood she filed copies of the magazine with the Copyright Office (14 months after they had been printed) which was necessary before she could begin suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Men's Turn | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...year's investigation, his office had learned about "a number" of the Judge's acts, of which he listed six, including: > Acceptance by Judge Manton or his corporations of $77,000 from a go-between for the late Promoter Archie M. Andrews, whose Packard razor patent suit Judge Manton helped to decide in Andrews' favor. > Accepting $50,000 in loans from Harry M. Warner (to whom $40,000 has been repaid) whose motion picture company won a patent case with Judge Manton presiding. > Receiving personally or for business enterprises $232,900 out of $250,000 lent through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Borrowing Judge | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Reforestation 10% extra: If suit sprouts in spring please cut off shoots and keep them for patches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Suit and Sprouts | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...ticket held by Alex Dupont won a 1,000,000-franc prize in the national lottery drawing. But M. Dupont had died, few weeks before. After a long and futile search for the ticket, his widow decided that it must be in the pocket of the white duck suit her husband was buried in. She got permission, exhumed the body, found the ticket, cashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Husband | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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