Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campaign was rough, personal. Hague called Burkitt "a contemptible scoundrel and carpet-bagger." The question of whether Mrs. Burkitt worked or not became a political issue. The Fusionist candidates-a nurseryman, a plumbing contractor, a motor salesman, an attorney, a roofing contractor-were obscured by the battle of Burkitt v. Hague...
...Joseph Pulitzer went in an airplane and was greeted by Brother-Publisher Ralph Pulitzer. "Bath House" John Coughlin, owner of Karl Eitel who did not place, wore an apple-blossom shirt, necktie, hat band. Herbert Bayard Swope, just returned from England, got his red hair wet and Commander Paul V. McNutt of the American Legion had the crease rained out of his trousers. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt did not seem to mind when her Chicatie came in last. She still felt Chicatie was a nice horse. Among governors were Kentucky's Sampson, Tennessee's Horton, Indiana...
After weeks of serious illness. His Majesty George V left Bognor-on-Sea last week to go home...
...Zbyszko v. Hearst. Stanislaus Zbyszko, ponderous wrestler, filed a $250,000 suit against Publisher William Randolph Hearst's New York American. Reason: The American had printed a gorilla's picture side-by-side with that of Wrestler Zbyszko; had commented: "Stanislaus Zbyszko ... is not fundamentally different from the gorilla in physique." Wrestler Zbyszko complained that since the event he had been "shunned and avoided by his wife, relatives, neighbors, associates and other persons...
...v. Automotive Daily News. On May 15, Automotive Daily News, automobile trade paper, published a story concerning an alleged new Reo eight. Reo Motor Car Co. promptly filed suit for one million dollars libel, calling the story "utterly false and without foundation." Reo's President Richard H. Scott took a page advertisement in metropolitan dailies to denounce the "pastime of originating and circulating falsehoods about motor industry," and improved the opportunity to cheer for the Reo six and to flay eights in general. He has seen no eight as good...