Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Party lines broke, however, when 30 hours before Hauptmann was scheduled to die on Jan. 17-New Jersey's Court of Pardons, a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U. S. Supreme Court having denied his pleas for clemency or delay- Governor Hoffman granted him a 30-day reprieve "for divers reasons," hinted that important new evidence had come to light. Few weeks later, no new evidence having appeared, New Jersey's Republican State Committee openly broke with the Republican Governor by declaring its intention to displace him as leader of the Party...
...days in jail for refusing to testify at the trial of his political mate, Governor Lee Maurice Russell, on charges of seducing a State Capitol stenographer. Last week Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo had his chance to get even, with Judge Holmes. His nomination to be United States Circuit Judge, Fifth Circuit, was up for Senate confirmation...
...Wilkes-Barre, the Record was printed by candlelight, its presses hooked to an emergency circuit. The Dansville, N. Y. Breeze failed to blow for the first time in 52 years. And at Hartford, Conn., the Courant, one of the oldest U. S. newspapers, was forced to lift its venerable skirts above the mud of the Connecticut River and skedaddle to the plant of the New Britain Herald...
Died. Hannah Armstrong Munsch, 71, daughter of William B. Duff Armstrong whom circuit-riding Lawyer Abraham Lincoln helped absolve of murder in 1857 by the celebrated means of using an almanac to prove that witnesses who saw the defendant in "bright moonlight" were lying; in Easton...
Judge Augustus N. Hand '90, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the second circuit speaks tonight at 8 o'clock in the Langdell Hall Court Room on "The Lawyer and the Judge...