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Word: circuit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bench, he would defy the Board. For either-contempt of court or "unfair labor practice"-he may go to jail. This was a dilemma which all the ripe experience of President Robinson's 70 years could not resolve, and he swiftly sought counsel of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Board v. Bench | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...maker in Iowa," wanted him to play the piano, compromised on a clarinet, but Freddie says he always broke the reed just before school band practice. When he was 21 and able to keep a reed intact, Freddie bought a dinner jacket and got a job in an Orpheum Circuit band. Later Freddie Fisher thought up the name "Schnickelfritz" (German slang for silly fellow), and assembled five men to play a permanent date in a tavern in Winona, Minn. Frankly out to build up a novelty band rather than one which would be noted for its music, Freddie signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Schnickelfritz | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...Litvinov Agreement of 1933, Russia turned over its accounts to the U. S., the Guaranty Trust claimed the $4,976,722 could not be collected because of New York's statute of limitations. The bank won in the lower court, lost last week in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Ruled Judge Thomas W. Swan: a statute of limitations cannot be invoked against the U. S. Government; to permit it against a sovereign foreign government would be to deny its sovereignty; therefore Russia's claim was adjudicable; therefore that claim can now be prosecuted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Intricacies & Variations | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...Finally seven names were left. In one group three Federal Circuit Court judges: Sam Gilbert Bratton of New Mexico, Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Texas, Samuel Hale Sibley of Georgia, and Chief Justice Walter Parker Stacy of North Carolina's Supreme Court. In another, three integral cogs of the New Deal: U. S. Solicitor General Stanley Forman Reed of Kentucky, Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black of Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Nominee No. 93 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...planes, Udet was forced to bail out more than once, on one occasion barely managing to kick himself free of the falling wreckage of his plane in time to open his parachute. Few hours after last week's accident, which occurred while Udet was competing in the Alpine circuit for solo pursuit planes, the German stunter nonchalantly described it to New York Times Correspondent Clarence K. Streit, who reported it thus: ". . . His racing monoplane cut through a 30,000-volt railway trolley in a blinding flash. His three-blade metal propeller became entangled in the cable supporting the trolley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Zurich Meet | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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