Word: cancels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolver in her handbag while a court examiner was hearing testimony. "I can hit a fourbit piece nine times out of ten," she remarked, where upon the unfortunate examiner adjourned the hearing, appealed to the court for protection. When the Sharon heirs brought suit in Federal circuit court to cancel Sarah Althea's claims, the Terrys took front-row seats. On the bench, doing the regular circuit duty then required of U. S. Supreme Court Justices, sat Terry's one-time colleague on the State Supreme Court bench and his longtime political foe, Justice Field. As he began...
...dealt out free advice. A classic case was that of a young married woman who had met a "boyfriend" and made a "mistake." The resulting baby was disclaimed both by the woman's husband and by her acquaintance. Another woman convulsed Good Will Court listeners by wanting to cancel her husband's interest in a joint cemetery plot because he was serving a life term in prison...
Christian Century had croaked the doom of Publisher Hearst's ilk in an editorial week before. An anti-Hearst committee persuaded 20th Century-Fox to cancel a proposed cinema about the Spanish revolution with Hearstian correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker as supervisor. The publisher's Presidential candidate had been historically swamped Nov. 3. At this juncture, William Randolph Hearst, whose instinct for ultimately landing right side up has seldom failed him in five decades of journalistic rough & tumble, began mending his fences...
...only major changes in important items of revenue and expenditure are the increase in total income and the corresponding increase in salaries and wages. Other items in the expenditures which have changed, such as the "income from dormitories credited to other income of certain departments of instruction and research", cancel each other...
...innovating President followed up this gesture by legally instituting a new festival known as Communications Day. His notion of celebrating it was to cancel all public communications by giving telephone, telegraph and postal workers a holiday...