Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only such three-man firm in the city, declared that it was easily identifiable. A & M admitted that one of the trio had two felony convictions (not for burglary), but the other two had clean records. The firm's members filed a $175,000 libel suit...
...this was too much for Judge Malcolm E. Douglas. He found Watson in contempt of court, and imposed an unusual penalty: he held Watson in default in the libel suit-which, in effect, ruled him guilty of libel and barred him from participating in the trial or the determination of damages. Judge Douglas said he would determine the damages to be assessed against Watson following a jury trial of the case against the Post-Intelligencer's publishers (Hearst) and three restaurants...
...have been resented by powerful A. T. & T., which for decades battled fiercely with the independents. But now there is peace. A. T. & T. has agreed not to raid the independents, makes generous revenue splits with them on interchanges of calls ($190 million in 1958). Fearful of Government antitrust suits (it narrowly squeezed out of a 1949 suit), A. T. & T. is only too happy to have the independents around as proof that it is far from a nationwide monopoly...
Trim in a charcoal grey suit, black loafers and grey Homburg, Berlin's muscular Mayor Willy Brandt, 45. bounded down the steps of the plane from Ottawa last weekend before Washington's photographers could get their cameras aimed. Brandt and his pretty, blonde wife were met by State Department Berlin Expert Eleanor Lansing Dulles, whose brother John Foster had just flown off to confer with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer about Brandt's Russia-menaced city. Said Brandt: "I will tell my friends in the U.S. about free Berlin . . . You can rely on the people of the city...
...third strumming on a one-string gourd guitar-wailed out a chant in honor of the man who for two solid hours had been the center of all the attention. Finally. Sekou Toure. 37. President of the new Republic of Guinea, a trim figure in a European business suit, rose and raised...