Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since electrical engineers found it economical to transmit high voltages of electricity from powerful central stations, they have had trouble handling the goods to be delivered. Simply to turn on and oft a monster current requires monster circuit breakers (switches). For currents of 220,000 volts, switches have had to be as large as water tanks' on apartment house roofs. It was necessary to immerse the breaker points in an oil bath of high insulating properties to smother the flashing arc when the circuit was broken. Frequently it was necessary to change the oil which was carbonized (made...
...conveyed in the mails. . . ." In April, 1929, Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett was convicted in a Brooklyn Federal court under this statute. She had written and sent through the mails a pamphlet, The Sex Side of Life. Last month her conviction was reversed in the Appellate Division, U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In this book she gives the history of her case, reprints the offending pamphlet, with its diagrams, in full. Said the Court of Appeals: the pamphlet is "an accurate exposition of the relevant facts of the sex side of life in decent language and in manifestly serious...
Judge John Johnston Parker of the Fourth U. S. Circuit Court was talking to newsmen at his home in Charlotte, N. C. They clustered about him because President Hoover had just appointed him an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, vice Edward Terry Sanford, deceased. Though 77 men have been elevated to the Supreme Court in its 141 years, only two came from North Carolina...
...logic. A Republican, he ran vainly but well for attorney general in 1916, for governor in 1920. In 1923 he was named an assistant to the U. S. Attorney General to prosecute war frauds, an assignment which caught the approving eye of President Coolidge who appointed him to the circuit court in 1925. Married, father of three, Judge Parker bought a set of golf clubs five years ago, has not yet got around to playing...
Judge Rutherford was born on a Missouri farm, practiced law at Boonville, acquired a circuit judgeship, continued practice in St. Louis, Kansas City. He accompanied the late William Jennings Bryan on his first Presidential campaign tour, announcing him as "appointed by God to straighten out the problems of the world." Mr. Bryan's example inspired Judge Rutherford to wear habitually a black bow tie. In 1916 he succeeded the late Charles Taze Russell of Brooklyn, founder-president of the International Bible Students Association...