Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Yale last month made basketball a major sport Harvard was left as the only campus in the Eastern circuit where hoopsters are wearing minor letters. Only New England still lags a little behind the rest of the country in their popular acclaim...
...Supreme Court if its members had to induct six young New Dealers is a subject to pique reportorial imagination. Last week several laymen had the opportunity of witnessing a comparable spectacle when black-haired, round-faced John Biggs Jr. of Delaware took office as a member of the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware...
...only 41. He had the political good fortune in 1932, when chairman of the Delaware delegation to the Democratic Convention, to be For-Roosevelt-Before-Chicago. Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey got a bill through the last Congress providing for the appointment of a fifth judge to the Third Circuit, for the reason that Judge Victor Baynard Woolley, aWilsonian Democrat, has been seriously ill for two years. Interesting was the appointment of a fifth judge because ailing Judge Woolley will be 70 this month and the other three members of the court are all older than...
Just to let everybody know that the Third Circuit keeps abreast of the news, Judge John Warren Davis, 70 and Democratic, owlishly interposed: "Judge Buffington welcomes you to help us four old men. But he is inconsistent. He's not in favor of having you go to help the Nine Old Men." The Republican and Democratic oldsters thereupon united to give their neophyte a hazing. That afternoon they dragged him into the midst of a complicated reorganization case, pointedly "browsed" while he tangled himself in tortuous financial discussions with lawyers...
...Unlike the President's proposal for the Supreme Court, the law providing for the appointment of a fifth member will not permanently increase the size of the Third Circuit Court. It provides that when a death or retirement takes place, the Court shall revert to four members...