Word: suits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Louise, they said, had lured Leland away from his faith and his family; they had enticed him to Milwaukee in Werner's private plane, given him a $75-a-month allowance, promised him a $25,000-a-year job in the family ironworks. "Werner's influence," the suit contends, "destroyed the natural affection the son had for his parents" and deprived them of "their only hopes for solace, affection, companionship and comfort during their declining years...
Leland and Mary Louise, both 21 and planning to be married this week in a Lutheran church, called the suit a "malicious" attempt to block their marriage. He had thought about giving up his faith before he met Mary Louise, said Leland...
...midst of drought, a town's prayers were doubly answered in last week's Staring Match on CBS's Studio One. First, in spotless white business suit, came Mr. White (James Daly), a winning stranger who knew everyone by name. He owned up to being "an angel o' the Lord" sent to find the town a well. ("A miracle!" cried a bystander. Beamed Mr. White: "I believe that's what they're called here, yes.") On his heels came another friendly, omniscient stranger (James Gregory), all in black, making the same claims. Each accused...
...office one day last week and voluntarily surrendered. But it was only a technical surrender. As California's Governor Goodwin Knight signed extradition papers for the lot and fired them off to New York, Harrison & Co. said they would oppose extradition, retorted with a $2,047,125 suit against California's Attorney General Edmund G. Brown and his assistant. The charge: censorship and suppression of 325,000 copies of the June Confidential issue by threatening dealers and distributors who handled the magazine with prosecution...
...well-entrenched monopoly whose foreign news came from cartels, such as Britain's Reuters and France's Agence Havas; subsidized or directly influenced by their governments, they divided the world into noncompetitive preserves. After the U.P.' challenged the cartels, the A.P. eventually followed suit. Testy Titan Scripps thus had some reason for his pride when he said: "I regard my life's greatest service to the people of this country to be the creation of the United Press...