Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also failed to report a $666,666.67 bonus, he was tried on a criminal charge of tax evasion, acquitted (TIME, May 1, 1933). In a civil proceeding the Board of Tax Appeals then ordered him to pay the evaded tax, amounting to $728,709.84. This week a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan turned down Bankster Mitchell's appeal from that ruling. Big difference between the Mitchell and Du Pont-Raskob methods of establishing losses was that Bankster Mitchell sold his stock not to a friend but to his wife, who only promised...
...Kankakee, Ill., Circuit Judge W. R. Hunter asked six applicants for citizenship if they approved the Sit-Down. Luckily, all said "No," for the Judge announced that he would have denied their applications if they had commended that "form of anarchy...
...membership limited to 750, the American Law Institute admits automatically only U. S. Supreme Court justices, senior judges of each of the ten U. S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and the presiding judges of State courts of last resort. Lawyers, law professors and other judges must be elected. Currently membership in this most austere and respected of legalistic deliberative bodies is only 702, despite a waiting list. Members who miss more than two annual meetings in a row are dropped...
...cause of the disaster remains in doubt. Smoking was permitted in an asbestos lined smoking room, at the door of which a steward always stood to watch outgoing passengers. But the fire apparently started in the stern, indicating the possibility of a short circuit. Since the ship only contained helium near the passenger's compartment, all the rest being hydrogen, any fire would be impossible to control. The ship had passed through an electrical storm over New York...
...painters are moving in. After a successful swing around the Winthrop House circuit during the midyear examination period, the bucket and brush division of the Maintenance Department is now taking up its position in McKinlock Hall, Leverett...