Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...barely 28 months old, in a field of 52 starters including Mary Blue, beat all of the best Setters and Pointers of America and Canada. In the final series in the Manitoba All-Age Stake, Princeton was paired against the Pointer, Mary Blue. The result of this test did not leave the Judges long in doubt that Princeton was the superior of the Pointer, Mary Blue...
...last week scrutinizing judges of the U. S. Circuit Courts for a possible successor to the late Edward Terry Sanford on the Supreme Court of the U. S., the Senate Judiciary Committee (which must pass on the appointment) was establishing, without attracting much public attention, a startlingly new test to apply to this and other high judicial nominations. No less a veteran Washington newsman than Mark Sullivan pronounced the committee's test "sensational," called its establishment "the most fundamental event that has occurred in this session of Congress...
...test was completely exhibited in the Judiciary Committee's handling of the nomination of Thomas Day Thacher to be Solicitor General of the U. S. Idaho's Senator Borah asked Mr. Thacher if he owned any public utility stock. Mr. Thacher submitted a list of his holdings: 100 shares American & Foreign Power Corp.; 55 shares of Baltimore's Consolidated Gas & Electric; 100 shares Electric Power & Light Corp.; 400 shares National Power & Light Co. Judiciary Committee Chairman Norris wrote Nominee Thacher: "In the judgment of the committee you ought to divest yourself of the securities mentioned." Mr. Thacher...
Responsible for this new property test for judicial office were the powerphobes of the Judiciary Committee-Senators Norris of Nebraska, Borah of Idaho. Elaine of Wisconsin, Walsh of Montana...
...pilot tunnel" be driven across the Channel at once at an estimated cost of $25,000,000 to test the geological and engineering problems involved. This pilot tunnel later to become a drainage and ventilator tube for the two main traffic tunnels...