Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received a letter from Federal Judge Wilkerson, nominee for the Circuit Court, explaining that he had never bound himself to accept the prosecutor's recommendation of a light sentence for Scarface Al Capone in return for a plea of guilty, but had permitted withdrawal of that plea because the defense insisted on full acceptance of the prosecutor's recommendation or nothing...
Labor is a behemoth which never forgets. When President Hoover appointed Federal Judge James Herbert Wilkerson to the Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago last winter (TIME, Jan. 25 ), Labor bitterly recalled that it was this same Judge Wilkerson whose mandate smashed the great railway shopmen's strike of 1922. At the request of Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, Judge Wilkerson. just appointed by President Harding, issued a sweeping injunction restraining strikers all over the nation from meeting, picketing, agitating against their employers. The struggle to prevent the Senate's confirmation of Judge Wilkerson to the appellate court has been...
...model airline operated by Eastern Air Transport and Transamerican Airlines. For a $5 fare, to demonstrate standard airline practice, the planes carried passengers around a 60-mi. circuit to the Ford, Wayne County, Grosse He and Walker airports...
...hockey enthusiasts in the U. S. In the first place, small, battered and made of pewter, its appearance is incongruous with its importance. In the second place, possession of the Stanley Cup is decided by a procedure which is almost ridiculous in its complexity. The National Hockey League, chief circuit of hockey, is divided into the American Group and the International Group, of four teams each. At the end of the season, only the team which finishes lowest in each group is eliminated from the play-offs for the Stanley Cup. The winners in each group play a three...
...close cavalcade, the favorites were out of the running. A horse called Forbra, owned by a West-of-England bookmaker named Parsonage, running at odds of 50-to-1 was ahead. Egremont, Shaun Goilin and Sea Soldier were well up. Only nine of the 36 starters finished the first circuit of the course...