Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheers to Schoolmarm Gayle Graner. Too bad she can't use the same tactics on Roscoe's parents for the audacity of their $2,500 suit...
...power base secure, T.R. kicked off a momentous new-century campaign to save his countrymen from "government by plutocracy or by mob." His first milestone breakthroughs: 1) first successful antitrust suit brought by an American President to dissolve a corporate monopoly-the Northern Securities Co.-to safeguard right of free competition; 2) first mediation between management and labor by an American President-in the great anthracite coal strike-to safeguard the public welfare, including the rights of labor. But T.R., conservative, added: "I wish the labor people absolutely to understand that I set my face like flint against violence...
...near penury until he was over 40. To gain a minimum of security, he signed an exclusive contract with Art Dealer Ambroise Vollard, agreeing to turn over all of the paintings in his studio for a mere $10,000. After Vollard's death in 1939, Rouault brought suit, recovered some 700 of his own canvases, burned 315 of them as inferior...
Here the stigmata, the brand, the taint, are clearly seen: the error of wearing white bucks for so solemn and evening, the misdemeanor of a soft, stammering voice, the felony of too loud and sure a one, the atrocity of a blue suit, here sitting a couple of silent boys with slanted eyes and yellow skin, from here the man who was academically first in the class leaving in discouragement to join Prospect, and here, recurring nearly two times out of every three, Israel's immemorial face is seen; the class has sixteen Merit Scholars, ten were in trouble...
...Fine Print. In Chicago, William J. Powell. 31, who views marriage as a give-and-take proposition and averted four divorce suits filed by his wife (by agreeing to: 1) turn over-his entire paycheck to her. 2) change from night work to day work because she was lonesome, 3) attend her church, 4) give up television because it interfered with her reading), was remarried after a fifth, successful suit when he agreed to give up golf and bowling, was sued once again, this time was told that he must give up beating his wife...