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...your Board permits its docket to become congested, the Government is delayed in the collection of its revenue and in order to operate must find revenue elsewhere. For the next few years, back-taxes are a very material part of the Government's receipts. During the last fiscal year they probably ran as high as $400,000,000. . . You should not permit yourselves to be lost in involved and tedious law suits. Make yourselves an administrative body to settle taxes. Give speedy decisions. To delay is to deny justice−both to the Government and the taxpayer...
...another season of labor has concluded. He and his associates have recessed for the Summer. In October of 1923 they had assembled to find 580 cases on the docket. In June, 1924, they adjourned leaving 412 cases on the docket-44 more cases than they had left the June before...
...Business as Usual" sign hangs once more over the door of the old Senate Chamber in the Capitol where sits the Supreme Court. When the Court adjourned last June it had some 16 cases under advisement and 368 cases on its docket. On Oct. 1 the nine Justices reassembled, to find that 212 more cases had accumulated during the recess-placing a total of 580 cases on the docket. On the first day of the Court's Fall session motions were heard but no arguments and the Court adjourned to pay a formal call on President Coolidge...
Congestion in the Southern District of New York was to be expected because of the volume of commercial litigation in Manhattan. District Judges from California, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Alabama, New Jersey and other states have been sent there to stem the rising tide of cases on the docket, but to no avail...
...name of General Leonard Wood was also on the docket for this honor. The exigencies of Philippine governance prevented his attendance. The Supreme Council thereupon altered its constitution so that it is now possible to confer the degree on officers of the Army or Navy on active service in whatever jurisdiction they may be stationed...