Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Grand Forks with $2.50 in his pocket, Davies opened a law office "about the size of a lavatory." He won his first case, a suit for payment on a promissory note. Says he: "It wasn't a very difficult case. The man owed the money." In 1932 Davies was elected municipal judge (at $135 a month) in Grand Forks; he served two terms and retired in 1940 because "I didn't want to get tagged with the title of police-court judge." He entered the Army as a lieutenant in 1942, held down various Stateside desk...
...about the change--was simply that you can't make a silk purse out of a bulldog's ear. It will not possibly do to have Yalies parading around in coats and ties when they would prefer to wear a tee shirt and sweat pants, or perhaps a swimming suit. While we have no particular objection to giving top hats to Zulus, we see no necessity...
Marie Win, formerly Radcliffe '58 and winner of the Miss Radcliffe Contest of 1954, was awarded $1227 yesterday in her suit against Richard Osgood of Quincy, for injuries suffered in a scooter-automobile collision...
Payoff. To settle the suit, the defendants agreed to pay Zenith ten annual installments of $1,000,000 beginning Oct. 1. More important, Zenith got royalty-free licensing rights from RCA and General Electric on black-and-white TV equipment, including tubes. It got similar rights on common-carrier communications equipment from Western Electric and the Bell System. At Philco Corp., which in 1956 filed a still pending $150 million antitrust suit against RCA involving color TV patents, nobody was talking yet. But after Zenith broke the ice, RCA's patent pool seemed to be thawing at last...
...Suit. In Miles City, Mont., a gun-toting, billy-waving, uniformed bogus patrolman halted motorists, demanded cash bonds for imaginary violations, brushed off requests for receipts by saying that fines are not deductible for income tax purposes...