Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where flowers are dropped upon the city hospital for an injured officer of the Akron's staff. Thence the airship heads toward Cleveland, first dipping her nose in salute over the home of Assistant Secretary Ingalls at Chagrin Falls. The ship flies on to complete a 125-mi. circuit...
...Hanna was found to be "normal," was released. Teacher Friendly, declaring that her test had been misinterpreted, said that she had acted merely as a consultant to the court. She would bring no further allegations of feeblemindedness against Helen Hanna. Then Judge William Ball Gilbert of the Circuit Court said he had taken no cognizance of the tests anyway. Because of the Hanna's poverty, he took Helen from her family, installed her in the home of a Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Townsend...
...Government made a beau geste to business when it did not appeal the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis permitting Standard Oil Co. of New York and Vacuum Oil Co. of New York to merge (TIME, June 15). Straightway every oil merger rumor of the last three years came to life. Last week a gusher of oil news spouted on the front page of every newspaper. Of greatest magnitude was the announcement that...
Died, Judge Alfred J. Murphy, 63, of the Wayne County (Mich.) Circuit Court, president of Federal Bond & Mortgage Co.; by his own hand (shooting); in Detroit. Long distressed by a grand jury investigation of his company's affairs, he left a note to the coroner: "My health is shattered and I am broken in spirit. . . . Robert Louis Stevenson's words might well be written of me: 'Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much...
...happy, happy man was U. S. Circuit Judge Curtis Dwight Wilbur one day last week as he stood on the dock of the Charlestown (Mass.) Navy Yard and watched the 134-year-old frigate Constitution go back into naval service for the fourth time. The occasion was a belated climax to his career as Secretary of the Navy (1924-29). Frankly a sentimentalist, one of his outstanding deeds in office was sponsoring the collection of thousands of pennies from thousands of school children to pay for the reconstruction of this black, chunky relic. Now he had crossed the country from...