Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Down was not proven. President Roosevelt, a lawyer by training, is known to have had no illusions that the Sit-Down was legal but to have deprecated it as no crime, just a misdemeanor. Last week in Philadelphia in the first Sit-Down ruling from the Federal bench, the Circuit Court of Appeals declared that sit-downers in a local hosiery mill were not only guilty of such crimes as forcible entry and forcible detainer but had violated the Wagner Act and the Sherman Anti-Trust...
...stormed from without, that 2,500 workers were driven from their jobs, that $3,000,000 worth of damage was done during the rioting. For seven weeks the sit-downers held complete possession. After a Federal District Court judge denied Apex an injunction, the company appealed. Said the three Circuit Court jurists in last week's unanimous opinion...
...increase for each $1,000 of real and personal property value on' Milwaukee's assessment rolls. What made the award of national interest was that fortnight ago a favorable decision in a similar patent infringement suit against Chicago's Sanitary.District was upheld in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Activated Sludge's compensation in that case may make Milwaukee's payment look like small change. All patents which Activated Sludge controlled in the U. S. have now run out their 17 years, but the company still has suits pending against New York City, Fort...
...himself publicized as an intermediary in procuring a harem wife from among Alabama womanhood, promptly sued the Post for $100,000, claiming he had been libeled. The Post filed a demurrer on the grounds that White had suffered no damage and that the suit was nonactionable, was upheld in Circuit Court. White appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court, which reversed the lower court and ordered the case remanded in a resounding opinion by Justice Thomas E. Knight Sr.: "The purchase of a girl from her parents, to be carried to some distant country to complete an Arab's harem...
...Dictator Stalin chose, not Sigismund Levanevsky as announced, but three other "Heroes of the Soviet Union"-Pilot Valeri Pavlovitch Chkaloff, 33, Co-Pilot Georgi Phillipovitch Baidukoff, 30, and Navigator Alexander Vassielievitch Beliakoff, 40. Last year this trio flew the same plane on a 5,858-mi. non-stop circuit of the Soviet Arctic. Because Levanevsky's failure on a transpolar flight two years ago brought unfavorable publicity, this year's venture was kept a dark secret long after the red and grey plane left Moscow. Then a Canadian radio station plucked the news from the ether that...