Word: returned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General" Mitchell marshaled battalions of statistics to show how U. S. court business has increased, cited the case of Judge Joseph West Molyneaux of Minneapolis who ''has broken down from overwork and is unable to return to the bench." On June 30 there were 149,033 cases, civil and criminal, pending in U. S. courts...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, president of the party, was detained in her Paris home, could not attend the convention. She sent the delegates a cablegram. In return, they re-elected her to office. Her absence, however, did prevent dedication of the new party headquarters on B Street, to which the feminists moved from their ''little capitol" building, condemned to make way for a new supreme court...
...office for "campaign irregularities," famed Benjamin Barr Lindsey of Denver was last week disbarred for "professional misconduct" by the Colorado State Supreme Court. While Denver Juvenile Court Judge- an office which he made nation-famed-he accepted a "gift" of some $40,000 from socialite Helen Elwood Stokes, in return helped her "as friend and counsellor" to break the will of her late husband, Hotelman W. E. D. Stokes. Said the disbarring judge: "By taking fees while judge, he was false to his oath both as a judicial officer and as an attorney." Said Jurist Lindsey: "Pure malice of political...
...Litvinov. Cowed by the Red Army's raid into Manchuria three weeks ago, Governor General Chang humbly agreed that the Chinese Eastern Railway shall again be placed under the management of Soviet citizens, as it was before China booted out the Reds last summer (TIME, July 22). In return the Soviet Government agreed to cease propagandizing in Manchuria, but no Chinaman believed that this promise will be more than technically kept...
...extracted from it its advantages of education, social prestige, training in worldly affairs, then went his own picaresque way down the primrose path. At 18 he had already tasted jail because of a "dormitory scandal." Sent on a mission to Constantinople, he became emperor of the island of Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi), famed Venetian jail so called because it was in the garret of the Ducal Palace, whose roof was covered...