Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under Section 77b when a creditor, Shanferoke Coal & Supply Corp. of Delaware, sued to collect a bill of $26,051. A reorganization plan was approved by the court and by a majority of security holders and creditors, except Shanferoke Coal. That company tiled a petition in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals which resulted in a noteworthy decision...
...department at Bacone College near Muskogee, Okla. A first-rate tribal artist. Blue Eagle won fourth place in the 1932 Olympic exhibition for his water colors and drawings of Indian athletes. When his well-to-do family lost its money he went on the Redpath Lyceum circuit as a dancer. Last week Blue Eagle was on his way to Oxford to lecture and dance at the International Federation of Education...
...Miami Beach (Fla.) Tribune's crusading Reporter Shannon Cormack happened to let an error of fact into a story he wrote last February about Circuit Judge Jefferson B. Browne, who was trying a Florida State Senator on gambling charges. Cited for contempt, fined $50 and sentenced to one day in jail, Newshawk Cormack appealed. Last week, all appeals having failed, Cormack served his one-day sentence...
Another report was that two radio engineers named Rodman and Dumont had helped Captain Clayton develop the ship-finder, using a thermocouple. Thermocouples operate on the physical principle that, if two small strips of dissimilar metals are made to form a closed circuit, minute changes in the temperature of the strips set up minute electrical currents, which may be amplified by vacuum tubes and measured. Astronomers use thermocouples to measure the temperatures of stars trillions of miles away...
...America were sued by the company's receiver, Irving Trust Co.. which charged them with general mismanagement and with diverting $1,500,000 worth of profits from stock sales to their own pockets. A Federal District judge acquitted the defendants, was reversed last autumn by a Circuit Court of Appeals. Last May, on the request of Irving Trust which charged that his "pecuniary position is precarious" and that he had been "fraudulently conveying away his property" until he had "substantially stripped himself of his assets," a Federal Court in Manhattan required "Tony" Biddle to post...