Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Springfield, Illinois' Electoral College (president, Circuit Judge John O'Connor of Chicago) heard a discussion of the merits of electoral v. popular votes for President without recommendation. Illinois ballots gave electors the choice of marking X's for Roosevelt, Landon, Lemke, Thomas, Colvin, Aiken. For Roosevelt & Garner, 29 votes...
...health of women, that therefore police officers who prevented the use of contraceptives interfered with the prerogatives of physicians. The decision practically canceled the whole series of "Comstock laws." Reluctant to yield to reversal of a 63-year-old U. S. prohibition, Government lawyers appealed to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in Manhattan, who last week upheld the Moscowitz decision, enabled Mrs. Sanger to crow: "Contraceptive material may be lawfully admitted into this country and disseminated, if intended for legitimate...
Ironside had finished preaching on a circuit ringing Stony Brook, L. I., Asbury Park, N. J. and Winona Lake, Ind., he had written 50,000 words which his secretary finished typing on the last day of August, mailed to the American Tract Society in Manhattan. There a committee representing six different denominations unanimously agreed that Dr. Ironside's treatise was the best of 29 submitted by U. S. ministers and professors in competition for a $1,000 prize offered by Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard, great & meritorious daughter of the late & notorious Jay Gould...
Keen, mellow and eminent among Federal jurists is 70-year-old Julian William Mack, who sits on the U. S. Circuit Court in New York. A realistic Zionist, Judge Mack overcame his detestation of titular honors last summer to accept honorary presidency of the First World Jewish Congress in Geneva. Devoted to the sanity of the law, he has shown a liberalism no less profound, if less spectacular than that of his old friend, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. His decision in the famed anti-trust case against the Sugar Institute in 1934 stands as a weighty legal precedent...
...Vantine studies will start their tour of the Houses with Adams on Monday and Tuesday, November 23 and 24, and will travel thence to Dunster on November 25 and 27, Leverett and Winthrop on November 30 and December 1, and Eliot and Kirkland on December 2 and 3. The circuit will end up with a grand climax at Lowell House, where the photographers will stay four days, from December...