Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tightest little monopolies in the U. S. is Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. It has even been sued, by Zack Miller's 101 Ranch when THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH grabbed off Tom Mix, for conspiracy in restraint of trade. Last week the Circus was again involved with the law, not for conspiracy in restraint of trade, but for conspiracy "against the peace and dignity of the U. S." in the form of income tax frauds. What was more, the U. S. charged, the frauds had been carried out with a showmanship which would have done credit...
...Congress pass a substitute, split into two separate parts, (a retirement act and a companion tax measure), in the hope that each would pass court muster alone and together put railway pensions into effect. Last week, in a test case brought by Alton Railroad Co., Associate Justice Jennings Bailey of the District of Columbia Supreme Court declared the two parts "inseparable," outlawed both on the ground that the tax law sought to collect revenue not to defray general government expenses but to benefit one class-"a purpose which the Supreme Court has held not within the domain of Federal Government...
...Nations, its defiance of the Conqueror of Ethiopia. And in London was Oswald Pirow. He was received in audience by Edward VIII. His Majesty's discerning former private secretary, Sir Godfrey Thomas, dined with Oswald Pirow, both being guests of the South African diamond tycoon, Sir Abe Bailey. Mr. Pirow called on the Secretary for Dominions, dry and cheerful little Son Malcolm MacDonald. Mr. Pirow made the official rounds of London and to intimates he confided that he thought his welcome, if anything, too hospitable. The British Islanders, he was resolved, should not take in the Union of South...
...days of the circus' death-defying stunts, as the days of its parades down Main Street, are over. Both are now an unnecessary complication of an already complicated routine. Since Ringling's and Barnum & Bailey's have combined, such competitive stunts are no longer demanded. Fellows admits that accidents still happen under the big top, but on no such scale as in the dangerous days of looping automobiles and diving bicycles. Such ' hair-raising numbers as Clyde Beatty's animal-training act are not popular with all members of the audience, and present knotty transportation...
...Edward W. Bailey, associate professor of Law at the University of Texas, becomes Ezra Ripley Thayer Teaching Follow in the Law School...