Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yellow-dog" contract is an agreement of employment wherein the employe promises the employer not to join any labor union. Largely because he once upheld the validity of such a contract, so hateful to union labor, the Senate rejected the nomination of U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of North Carolina to the Supreme Court (TIME, May 19, 1930). Declared the House Judiciary Committee reporting H. R. 5315: "The vice of such contracts, which are becoming alarmingly widespread, is that if they are carried to their ultimate conclusion, they would abolish trade-unionism. That is undoubtedly the purpose...
...whistled with their lips were morons. This was merely an ingenious method of getting his name in print before publishing one of his books. The manufacturer of a patent reducing medicine hired 40 New York chorus girls and, after dividing the city into zones, sent them on a circuit to all the drug-stores, where they bought tooth-paste, aspirin, etc., and finally asked for the reducing product. If the store did not have any in stock the girls dramatically refused to make any purchases at all. Due to this campaign, an enormous amount of the product was sold...
Aware that the eyes of the nation were upon his court, Circuit Judge Albert Moses Cristy refused to accept the findings of "no bill." Sternly he admonished his jurors: "I present to you a question of anarchy in this community. Are you willing to take the responsibility for that situation? . . . We are embarking upon a very necessary tour of duty. It is one I do not relish any more than you do." So saying, he sent them home to think the matter over...
...administer them, headed by its own fuzzy-haired Tsar, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Tsar Landis and owners of baseball clubs had good reason last week to sigh a big sigh of relief when they learned that, by withdrawing an action known as "The Bennett Case" from the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Club-owner Philip De Catesby Ball of the St. Louis "Browns" had spared them the necessity of testing one of baseball's major "laws" before the U. S. Supreme Court...
...remains, arrested the Lessards. An indignant Portland judge fined them $200 each for "killing a fish" with weapons other than hook & line. Last week Ethelbert was only a skeleton and a memory, but the Lessards were still trying to escape payment of their $400 fines. With one stroke Circuit Judge Hall S. Lusk, to whom they appealed, erased the blot from Ethelbert's escutcheon, wiped out the Lessard fines. Like almost everybody else, he knew, and explained to the jury in directing an acquittal, that a whale, which breathes air and suckles its young, is no fish...