Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year were fearful that a united labor slate would sweep the field, was Richard W. Reading, long-time city clerk. The C. I. O. candidate was an oldtime Democrat named Patrick O'Brien, Michigan's 69-year-old veteran attorney general who made his liberal name as circuit judge during the copper mine strikes in Michigan before the War. A. F. of L. belatedly entered John W. Smith, who was Detroit's mayor in the middle 1920s and has been trying to get back into this office off & on ever since. Throughout the campaign the sole issue...
...Four new circuit court judges and twelve new district court judges, three in the District of Columbia, are the only additions the Federal Judiciary needs...
...Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has been handicapped by President Roosevelt's delay in filling vacancies (one of which still exists), and even with the vacancy filled, another judge is needed...
...Federal courts was based on a letter by Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings which said that instituting a Federal suit was sometimes "a lifelong adventure." In Washington last week Attorney General Cummings tried his best to make the Judicial Conference's findings-that four out of ten Circuit and ten out of 85 District Courts needed new judges-seem not to be a partial rebuttal of his reasoning but a confirmation of it. Said he: "The Conference recommendation is a complete capitulation and a welcome...
...world, international tennis is a grand tour with Christmas in Melbourne, May at the French championships in Auteuil, June in the heroic blaze of Wimbledon. Last week international tennis and the small bronzed band of young men & women who play it best made the last stop on the circuit. The place was the stadium of the West Side Tennis Club in the otherwise undistinguished New York suburb of Forest Hills, the event the U. S. Singles Championships for men & women...