Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime argument against Prohibition was that it choked Federal courts with thousands upon thousands of new criminal cases, made it impossible for those courts to administer justice with reasonable care and dispatch. Last week, following the annual Conference of Senior Circuit Judges, Chief Justice Hughes reported that Repeal had not appreciably eased Federal court burdens. Prohibition cases had simply been replaced by liquor revenue cases. As of June 30, declared the Chief Justice, some 2,400 fewer cases were piled up in Federal district courts than at that time last year but that was because judges had stricken many...
Billed as the "world championship.'' Colonel William T. Johnson's rodeo which opened last week in Manhattan for the first of five stands in its annual circuit is actually nothing of the sort. The nearest approach to championships in calf-roping, bulldogging, bronco-riding and the rest of the spectacular exhibitions that go to make up a rodeo are the point scores compiled by the Rodeo Association of America (of which the Johnson rodeo is not a member) from some 50 Western rodeos throughout the year. Nonetheless, because the Johnson show enables them to stare...
...Puritans will find the game no pushover as they face the up and coming Gold-Coasters who form one of the three teams with unblemished records in the House circuit. Cach Hassen-fratz, straight from Lou Little's Rose Bowl winner of 1934, put out a promising looking team against Lowell House last week...
...York, S. C., Circuit Court Judge J. Henry Johnson asked for a law forbidding sale of trousers with hip pockets, so that "people wouldn't have such a handy place to carry a pistol...
This time Aluminum appealed. Last week in Manhattan, in a 2-to-1 decision, the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the Baush verdict, sent the case back, with a stinging rebuke to Judge Howe, for its third trial...