Word: chinn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crisp new blotters, clean pens, gleaming inkwells and clear glasses of water before them, then glanced at the carefully printed memorandum of cases pending. From the register they learned that one of the next cases to which they must bend their minds was the unfortunate plight of Oscar Chinn...
Sallow Oscar Chinn, a British subject, operates a small and grimy paddle-wheel steamer on the Congo. Trader Chinn's unlovely craft, which he claimed belongs to UNATRA, Union Nationale des Transports, a Belgian registered stock company, was halted by Belgian agents on its way down to Leopoldville. The Belgian Government had promulgated a new code of Congo regulations. The agents tried to apply them. But Trader Chinn had a sound practical sense of international law. He sued for damages...
International rules for navigation of the Congo were agreed to by the 1885 Conference of Berlin which provided freedom of navigation for all signatory powers, and prohibited differential river tolls in favor of any one. In what way Belgium had violated the constitutional rights of Oscar Chinn only he and the sober judges of the World Court knew last week...
Racing Committee: Colonel Philip Chinn of Lexington; Arnold Hanger, whose stable has horses like Victorian and The Nut in it; Rogers Caldwell of Nashville who owns Hourless, now in stud, and who bred the fine mare Lady Broadcast that won the Canadian Derby...