Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...week long the Senate debated the nomination of U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of North Carolina to be an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. All week long Senate sentiment for and against confirmation of this appointment divided so evenly that the result seemed to fluctuate within the narrowest margin of votes. All week long critics of Judge Parker flayed him for his Red Jacket coal case decision upholding a "yellow dog" labor contract, for his political animus toward Negroes. All week long his friends lauded his character, his integrity, his fitness for the highest bench...
State's Attorney N. Vernon Hawthorne in Circuit Court sought an order to padlock the Capone estate on the ground that the place was "a public nuisance and a source of annoyance to the community as a harbor for all classes of criminals and desperate characters." Capone, with his wife, son, lawyers, bodyguards, entered a crowded courtroom to defend himself. Exclaimed Fritz Gordon, Capone attorney: "The whole thing is a political scheme hatched up by State's Attorney Hawthorne and James Cox, publisher of the Miami Daily News, in a campaign for Hawthorne's re-election...
Stepping Sisters is a loudly hilarious farce which concerns itself with the fortunes of three retired burlesque actresses who once carried spears on the Columbia circuit in the days when "it was a privilege to have your picture in the Police Gazette." They meet for the first time in 20 years. It develops that Cecelia ("Sissy") Ramsey (Theresa Maxwell Conover) aspires to a place in Patchogue, L. I., society; that Regina ("Queenie") Chetworth-Lynde (Helen Raymond) has become a Shakespearean; that Rose ("Rosie") La Marr (Grace Huff) is still in burlesque, but as a producer...
...intricacies in wording of the law itself. And Judge Parker, from all that can be discovered, seems neither broadminded nor first-rate, and although certainly it is unfair for partisan purposes to criticize appointments to this tribunal certainly also, when men of large calibre are available, a second-rate Circuit Judge should not be promoted because North Carolina went Republican a year ago last fall...
Showing that he was still an active and useful part of the administration, quieting rumors of fresh hostility between himself and President Hoover, Vice President Curtis carried important news last week from the Capitol to the White House. Against President Hoover's appointment of U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of North Carolina to the Supreme Court was rising a tide of Senate opposition. It came from two quarters: 1) Union Labor, because in the Red Jacket coal case Judge Parker had sustained an injunction protecting a " yellow-dog" contract from the United Mine Workers of America;* 2) Negroes...