Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, A. T. & T. came to the end of its misgivings, announced it would not only continue the two present long wave circuits-but would open additional short-wave circuits from transmitting stations to be built near Trenton, N. J. Calls in the first eight months of 1928 were three times the total of Jan.-Aug., 1927. The 12½-hour service has been lengthened to 14½ hours. Now connected with the trans-Atlantic circuit are Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Oslo, Malmo, Stockholm and eight Mexican cities. The latest extension, completed last fortnight...
...committed perjury in the first instance. Frightened, she retracted her retraction, said she had signed the affidavit without knowing what it said, in return for $50 from Ben Bess's wife. The Bess side explained that Maude Collins had refused to sign anything unless she got paid. But Circuit Court Judge W. H. Townsend last week decided that the $50 was bribery, that bribery "vitiates" all things, even a Governor's pardon...
...suppose Terry Turner, a fat and smirking Broadwayfarer, to be an exploiter of monstrosity. Yet such is part of his profession. The Hilton twins, Siamese ones, who live in Texas, owe their fame and vaudeville contracts especially to him. Last fortnight this press-agent for Loew's Vaudeville Circuit turned his talents on another female pair, the Gibb twins, Mary and Margaret, joined since birth and recent members of a Coney Island freak museum. Very discreetly, he let it be known in newspaper offices that one of them was in love and that they would therefore submit...
...July 1926, he was convicted of conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act, was sentenced to two years in Atlanta penitentiary. U. S. Circuit Court Judge Julian William Mack regretted that the sentence could not be made longer...
...Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, Judge Edwin Yates Webb, in the case of the U. S. v. Isner, declared he had been a member of the Congress which passed the Volstead act, recalled well the debates on the subject, knew that it was the intention of Congress to define "non-intoxicating" at "non-intoxicating in fact...