Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover appointed U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker to the Supreme Court (see p. 16). Other appointments: Col. Guy Verner Henry to be the Army's Chief of Cavalry; Col. John Wylie Gulick to be the Army's Chief of Coast Artillery. Despite loud protest by some Washington citizens, the President named Major General Herbert Ball Crosby, retired, a District of Columbia Commissioner (TIME, Feb. 17). ¶ To the President was presented last week a report by his National Industrial Survey Conference to the effect that U. S. industry is gradually picking up the momentum...
While President Hoover was last week scrutinizing judges of the U. S. Circuit Courts for a possible successor to the late Edward Terry Sanford on the Supreme Court of the U. S., the Senate Judiciary Committee (which must pass on the appointment) was establishing, without attracting much public attention, a startlingly new test to apply to this and other high judicial nominations. No less a veteran Washington newsman than Mark Sullivan pronounced the committee's test "sensational," called its establishment "the most fundamental event that has occurred in this session of Congress...
...Albee, 73, Manhattan theatrical manager; at Palm Beach; of angina pectoris. As a boy he ran away from his native Machias, Maine, to join a wagon show. Working for the late, great Phineas Taylor ("P. T.") Barnum. he met Benjamin Franklin Keith. Together they built theatres, organized a vaudeville circuit which ultimately became $67.000,000 Keith-Albee-Orpheum, bought by Radio Corp. two years...
...gained a good education at the University of Tennessee (1883), at Harvard (1885), at Harvard Law School (1889). Genial, democratic in manner, with a talent for public speaking, he began a law practice that carried throughout his state. From his Yankee father he inherited a stout Republican faith. U.S. Circuit Judge Taft observed his legal ability, marked him as a good man. President Roosevelt brought him to Washington in 1907 as an assistant Attorney General, sent him back to Tennessee the next year as a U.S. District Judge. When in 1922 ill health forced Justice Mahlon Pitney to resign from...
...league was founded in 1926 by Clifford Harmon, to recognize and reward the persons who do each year's outstanding air work. Costes' 1929 work: non-stop flight from Paris to Tsitsihar, Manchuria, 4.910 mi. (farthest); Hanoi, Indo-China, to Paris, 4 days, 18 hrs. (fastest); closed circuit, 4.987 mi., around Marseilles (longest); with one ton cargo 2,048 mi. (farthest) for 18 hrs. i min. 20 sec. (longest). The 1927 award went to Charles Augustus Lindbergh, the 1928 to Arturo Ferrarin...