Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restraint of trade, jailed after a five-year legal battle. One item of evidence showed that he had extorted $20,000 from Chicago Telephone Co. for permission to erect a building without strikes. After two months of his one-year sentence President Wilson pardoned him, despite a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion that the evidence in his trial proclaimed him "a blackmailer, a highwayman, a betrayer of labor and a leech on commerce." He was promptly re-elected to his union job. Last week Boss Boyle's only ostensible reason for darkening Chicago was to get back...
Florence Ellinwood Allen, onetime Cleveland Plain Dealer musicritic, sits as judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati. Mrs. Frances Perkins Wilson is Secretary of Labor. The 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution gave women the right to vote in 1920. Still forbidden women in 26 States, however, is another prime privilege of a citizen-the right to serve as jurors...
...been in the saddle for 50 years and still rides his 50,000 Colorado acres in sub-zero weather, could recall the time when nothing except long-horn cattle roamed the range. And presented to the convention was Rev. L. R. Millican, 84, a wrinkled, white-thatched Baptist circuit-rider who as a boy knew General Sam Houston, father of Texas independence...
...wishing to recover processing and floor taxes under the A.A.A., the question which will be debated at eight o'clock tonight in the Ames Competition at the Law School, will be the Honorable John E. Allen, Chief Justice of New Hampshire; the Honorable Thomas W. Swan, Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second District, sitting in New York City; and the Honorable Charles H. Moorman, Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting in Louisville, Kentucky...
...Ohio) Citizen one day last week while the American Bar Association's House of Delegates met in Columbus' Deshler-Wallick Hotel to frame A. B. A. policies. Before the "congress" adjourned, the A. B. A.'s ethics & grievance committee was directed to investigate the action of Circuit Judge Edward D. Black of Flint in enjoining Fisher Body workers from striking, report to the annual A. B. A. convention in September whether ethical canons had been violated because Judge Black owned 3,665 shares of General Motors stock...