Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, 13 embattled coal and ice companies went before a Tennessee circuit judge, convinced him of their interest in the matter, got him to issue a writ forbidding the sale of the Knoxville properties until the whole deal could be reviewed from the legal and constitutional angle...
...Leverett gridsters jolted Adams from their pinnacle as an unbeaten team in the house gridiron circuit yesterday, stealing a close game from them 7-6, while Lowell and Winthrop, the only undefeated clubs in the league, fought to a scoreless...
...recording, the "sprocket" method of reproduction. Other systems were obsolete. But William Fox was sure those processes infringed on patents which he had acquired from three Germans and transferred to American Tri-Ergon Corp., his personal holding company formed in 1928. He sued Paramount Publix, the Wilmer & Vincent circuit and a Paramount Publix subsidiary. In effect he was suing R. C. A. Photophone and Electrical Research Products, both of which leaped to defend the defendants...
...contended that his patents were so broad he could rightfully claim tribute from virtually everyone who made sound equipment or produced or exhibited talking pictures. A Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his claim. The defendants scoffed. claimed the court's opinion was muddled and divided, appealed to the Supreme Court. Last fortnight the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeals. That meant that, on the strength of the lower court's decision, William Fox was a potential dictator of sound-recording...
...milk a wild cow would promptly have his brains kicked out. Performances like steer-wrestling, bronco-riding and wild-cow milking were a part of the World Series Rodeo that arrived in Manhattan last week for a stay of 19 days at Madison Square Garden. Grand climax of a circuit that attracts more than 3,000,000 customers every year, takes in $8,000,000, the World Series Rodeo offers $40,000 in prizes, annually awards "world's championships...