Word: circuit
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Presbyterian Church in the U. S. is the name of the Southern branch which last week met at Montreat, a staid resort in the mountains of North Carolina. The 400 delegates elected as moderator U. S. Circuit Judge Samuel Hale Sibley of Marietta, Ga. Graduated from the University of Georgia where he roomed with Eugene Black (now Governor of the Federal Reserve), Judge Sibley teaches Sunday School, is an able amateur carpenter...
...jail for eleven years. A short time after President Harding made him a Federal judge in 1922, he issued a drastic injunction which broke the railway shop strike and earned him the undying enmity of Labor. Two years ago, President Hoover tried to appoint Judge Wilkerson to the Circuit Court of Appeals. Railway labor promptly sent a representative to protest to the Senate against confirmation of the nomination. The nomination was never confirmed. Labor's emissary was a young Chicago lawyer named Donald B. Richberg. Today Mr. Richberg is NRA's chief counsel...
Intra-mural contests between the Crimson and the Blue arrive at the climax of the season today when two Harvard inter-House champions come up against their traditional Yale rivals. Leverett, leaders of the House tennis circuit by a mere shoe-string edge over the Lowell netmen, and Brooks, champions of the crews, make big medicine this afternoon in their respective bids for supremacy...
...year. The proposal that the University send out men to speak at the various nearby schools and for those at a distance publish an enlarged booklet on the Freshman courses, hits a snag when one considers the number of variations of secondary curricula with which such a circuit rider would have to familiarize himself...
Adams now holds down the second highest berth in the House circuit with an average of 857, having won six and lost one. But they still have two defaulted games to play off. The only clash dropped by the Gold casters was that with the Deacons...