Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Page One. One juror had been a Ku Kluxer himself. Another had served two years in prison for a felony, lost his citizenship rights. Five others, including the foreman, had police records for drunkenness or disorderly conduct. The only Negro on the grand jury could neither read nor write. Circuit Judge George Lewis Bailes decided there was only one "reasonable, humane and practical" way out: he fired the ex-convict from the jury, temporarily excused the former Ku Kluxer at his request, declared a six weeks' recess for the others...
...night of Nov. 7, testified County Circuit Judge William B. Ardery, a young politician had come to his home in search of advice. The visitor said that he and two other young fellows had forged a batch of ballots and stuffed them into ballot boxes before the polls opened. The bogus ballots had been discovered (253 marked for President Truman and Democratic Senator Virgil Chapman, one for Chapman's Republican opponent). The judge's caller was worried...
Down in the Valley, a one-act "folk opera" by Composer Kurt Weill and Librettist Arnold Sundgaard, had become a sensational hit on the campus theater circuit all over the U.S. Written a year ago, it had already had some 80 separate productions. Last week its latest one was the biggest hit in the three-year history of Manhattan's zestful Lemonade Opera company...
...late Martin T. Manton, senior judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, convicted in 1939-on evidence uncovered by then District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey-of accepting $186,146 in loans or bribes from litigants in his court. * Among them: permitting a defense psychiatrist to sit in court, conspicuously watching Chambers while he was on the stand; allowing Stryker to question Chambers about a suicide in his family, but barring similar testimony about Hiss's family...
...cocky President Stan Weiss, the decision seemed like a conspiracy between the major scheduled airlines and CAB to get rid of Standard and its profitable cut-rate air coach business. Cried he: "We're going to take those so & so's into the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and try to get a stay...