Word: circuit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...late Calvin Coolidge's great & good friend William Morgan Butler, appealed to a Federal Court to be excused from paying $81,694 of processing and floor taxes on the ground that AAA is unconstitutional. Hoosac Mills lost its plea in the lower court but won in the Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston last July (TIME, July...
...Burr had been arrested three times for treason in Kentucky and Mississippi. Blennerhassett was arrested twice on the same charge, the second time in Kentucky, where his case was defended by a promising young lawyer named Henry Clay. There followed the great Burr treason trial in the U. S. Circuit Court at Richmond, with Chief Justice John Marshall presiding. Specific charge against Burr was that he had behaved treasonably by "levying war" against the United States. Chief Justice Marshall, however, ruled that no "overt act" of war had been committed by Burr or his associates, and that was the turning...
...estimate, converted 1,000,000 sinners, lay abed, with no Bible under his head. No longer an influence in the religious life of his time, he was 72, his fortune spent on his errant sons, his health gone in preaching on what he called "the kerosene circuit." To his wife whom he always called "Ma" he said: "Oh, I feel so dizzy." Then he died...
...Biblical prophecies govern man's fate, that formalized religion, financiers, politicians and such emblems as the U. S. flag are agents of Lucifer, who is grooming himself for a terrific last-ditch fight with Jehovah. Leader of the sect is big, militant Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford, onetime Missouri circuit judge, who campaigned for William Jennings Bryan in 1896. Pleased with publicity in Lynn, Judge Rutherford boomed to all little Witnesses: "Whom do you choose to serve, Jehovah or Satan the Devil?" Promptly the Lynn school board expelled Carleton Nichols Jr., found itself embarrassed by the State truancy...
...House track association there will be two circuits of four teams, each team to meet every other in the circuit, the squad topping each circuit to contend for the championship. There will be only seven or eight events, mostly running events, in order to eliminate those in which there is not likely to be much competition...