Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Circuit Court of Appeals. It had done nothing when a judge in Pennsylvania had enjoined Government attorneys from bringing suit in New York against the Aluminum Company of America. It had refused to decide six cases on which it had heard argument and ordered them reargued in the autumn. Yet in spite of all these things, the Court had adjourned for four months because eight old men needed rest.* Of course he was still intent on judicial reform...
While Justice Butler read a decision Mr. Van Devanter leaned over and whispered to Chief Justice Hughes. In 20 minutes a few decisions of little public interest had been read, Court orders issued providing for hearing next autumn of cases challenging PWA's loans to establish municipal power plants, denying an immediate review of Electric Bond & Share Co.'s test of the Utility Holding Company Act, etc. For another 25 minutes the Justices sat while nearly 100 applicants for permission to practice before the Court were introduced, and sworn in in batches. Then the Court rose...
When King Frederick Perry I of England abdicated the throne of amateur tennis last autumn to woo the almighty dollar, the heir-apparent was Prince Donald Budge of the U. S., unless .aging Pretender Jack Crawford of Australia could make good his claim. At stake was more than the throne. Without King Frederick, England had little chance of retaining the Davis Cup, and the challenge round for that 37-year-old receptacle, which Australasia and France have each won six times, Great Britain nine times and the U. S. ten times (but not since 1926), would really be the American...
...William J. Mericka & Co. this week. Publisher Griffith-Grey -who enlarged his name in 1915 to avoid being confused with his famed brother, for whom he used to distribute pictures like Broken Blossoms, Intolerance, The Birth of a Nation-determined 18 months ago to get out Cinema Arts. Last autumn he startled the magazine world with the biggest dummy ever seen in the U. S., a book 14 by 17 in., of which 12,000 copies were distributed in the U. S. and England. Despite enthusiastic response from advertisers, who welcomed its display opportunities, the magazine was whittled down before...
...purely geologic curiosity" the great engineer journeyed across the Sierras from his home in Palo Alto to inspect the Jumbo, was greatly impressed, advised the Austins to hang on (TIME, Aug. 31). George Austin announced that he would not sell at any price. Discovery of unsuspected veins last autumn added to Jumbo's lustre, touched off a local boom in surrounding territory...