Word: district
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day Senator Brookhart hurried dutifully to the District Court House, appeared before the Grand Jury for 15 minutes to repeat his story. He paused on the way in to be photographed with U. S. District Attorney Leo A. Rover, thus helping to violate a court order against photographs in the building...
...judges sitting in the court for the first case are the Honorable J. A. Lowell '91. United States District Judge for Massachusetts, the Honorable R. P. Dietzman '05, Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, and the Honorable F. T. Field, Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. The clubs in the case are the Scott club, represented by E. B. Hanley, Jr. 3L and C. A. Howard, Jr. 3L and the Bryce club, represented by E. Darling 3L and C. T. Lane...
...judges for the second case, which concerns Corporation Law, are the Honorable E. H. Brewster, United States District Judge for Massachusetts, the Honorable T. L. Marble, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, and the Honorable J. S. Murdock, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. The clubs arguing in this case are the Warren club, represented by V. V. R. Booth 31, and R. F. Young 3L, and the Chafee club, represented by R. F. Carney...
...Grand Jury promptly certified their behavior to Justice Peyton Gordon of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. Justice Gordon owes his recent elevation to the bench in no small part to the good newspaper treatment he received when, as U. S. District Attorney, he prosecuted some minor ramifications of the oil scandals (TIME, March 12, 1928). No man to let past favors interfere with the course of justice, Judge Gordon found the three newsgatherers in contempt, sentenced them to 45 days in jail, denied them bond. The Times prepared to pay them double salaries during their imprisonment. Its lawyers...
...grain collecting campaign" (TIME, Oct. 28), 50 "kulaks" (rich peasants) were executed in various parts of the Soviet Union. This crime of crimes is committed in three ways: 1) by failing to sow all one's grain fields (a shameful hotbed of this vice is the district of Kuba, where only 4% of the fields were sown last Spring); 2) by refusing to sell grain to the Government collector at the price fixed in Moscow; 3) by inciting others to such "opposition...