Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case to be argued is one of equity affecting trade secrets and unfair competition. The judges are to be the Honorable W. S. Kenyon, United States Judge of the Eighth Circuit; the Honorable Smith Hickenlooper, United States Judge of the Sixth Circuit; and the Honorable Kenneth MacKintosh, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington...
...judges have already been chosen and a third will be announced within a few days. The Honorable William S. Kenyon, United States Circuit Judge, on the eighth Circuit, and the Honorable Smith Hickenlooper, also a United States Circuit Judge, on the sixth circuit, are the two who are already announced...
...appealed the famed Norris liquor-conspiracy case. Alfred E. Norris, New York broker, had ordered liquor by telephone from a Philadelphia 'legger. A U. S. District Court found him, as purchaser, guilty of conspiracy with the 'legger because transportation was involved (TIME, Oct. 14). A Circuit Court of Appeals reversed this interpretation of the Dry law. Attorney-General Mitchell asked the Supreme Court to set aside the Circuit Court's ruling which, he said, "Has made the enforcement of Prohibition laws more difficult...
Damage: $75.000. Cause: Secretary Newton insisted it was a short circuit. Washington fire chiefs blamed a faulty flue in the chimney from Secretary Newton's office. A fire had been burning on his hearth barely an hour before while he was dressing there for the White House party. The half-story garret above was a fire-nest where flames fed greedily on bundled papers in storage...