Word: case
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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...
...bighearted, full of fight or banter, Irishman Sullivan was undisturbed by reports that the Senate might question his right to membership because of a quirk juggled into the Wyoming law by a Republican legislature to prevent one-time (1925-27) Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross from appointing a Democrat in case Senator Warren died...
...yellow-jacketed book, In the Reign of Rothstein, appeared. Rothstein-Mathematician of Crime was published serially in a New York daily. Throughout the autumnal mayoralty campaign, candidates aspiring to Mayor Walker's desk filled the newspapers with accusations that Tammany Hall was afraid to prosecute the Rothstein case because Tammany men were too intimately connected with Rothstein's world...
...State's attorneys outlined their case against Gambler McManus. He had lost money to Rothstein at poker. Later he had taken a room at the Park Central Hotel, ordered whiskey, summoned Rothstein by telephone. Rothstein was seen staggering away from the room clutching his belly, was found at the servants' entrance of the hotel with a fatal bullet wound in his groin. He refused to name his assailant. An automatic pistol was picked up on the street under McManus' window, in the screen of which was torn a big hole...
...recipes and dishes to tempt the royal appetite. In Cairo, amiable King Fuad remembered that when he suffered from lassitude and loss of appetite, nothing was quite so good as a long cool glass of bright pink "preserved milk," specially prepared by his Egyptian chef. Obligingly he sent a case to George V. Britain's royal chef, M. Cedard, utilized the pink milk to make a pink milk pudding. All six of Their Majesties were said at Sandringham to have pronounced it "extraordinarily palatable...