Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present standard of weight and fineness." In May 1933 when the bonds were due, Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. demanded payment in gold or its equivalent in dollars. When this was refused, the bank took the question into Federal Court in St. Louis. Later Bankers Trust tried to withdraw its suit, but Judge Charles Breckenridge Faris refused permission, on the ground that the question was too important to drop. So it was, for between $90,000,000,000 and $125,000,000,000 of bonds held in the U. S. carried a promise to pay in gold so that...
...President Roosevelt when his $1,000,000 plagiarism suit against Playwright James Hagan and the Paramount interests was thrown out of a Federal Court in Manhattan. After alleging that Playwright Hagan's One Saturday Afternoon was cribbed out of his novel, The Avenger, Plaintiff Child had tried to withdraw his suit with an apology. Refusing to permit this. Judge John M. Woolsey dismissed the suit only after assessing costs & fees against Mr. Child and remarking: "It gave me a pain. The charges are absolutely unfounded...
...seized in his mighty middle by great gripes which he feared were amebic dysentery. He spent two days resting in Detroit, arrived in Philadelphia with a box of pills and the intention of watching the tournament instead of playing in it. His brother Mortie persuaded him not to withdraw his entry. With a caddy who had dreamed that he would win, Dutra started out, ambling slowly, using his niblick as a walking stick...
Judge Sullivan, angered by some inflection in the words, said hotly: "That's an insulting remark. Withdraw...
...withdraw the remark," Lapin said evenly...