Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood and Broadway rubbed their palms gleefully over the outcome of a tax "test case" decided last week in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Manhattan. Appellant was plump, dark Actor Sidney Blackmer. From his taxable income in 1927, Actor Blackmer had deducted $1,687.10 as money spent entertaining critics and influential acquaintances who might further his professional career. The Board of Tax Appeals had previously turned thumbs down on the deduction, just as it had last year when Mr. Blackmer's divorced wife Lenore Ulric claimed exemption for $11,130 worth of "donated favors" to "newspaper critics...
...your March 19 issue on p. 14 you speak of Circuit Judge Allen as having "a cordial handshake and myopic eyes." From the appearance of her eyes in the accompanying photograph, I would suggest that the Judge is hyperopic, not myopic; in other words "farsighted" not "near-sighted...
...minutes. As in elections, individual votes are submerged by the mass vote under the Hopkins plan, which works through electric power stations. Confronting the radio listener are three buttons, installed in his cabinet. One button is marked "Present," the second "Yes," the third "No." Each button closes a circuit through a 100-ohm resistance, thus consuming a measured amount of electric current. In the power station, besides the standard wattmeter which constantly records the total current in use and charts the daily peak loads, is a Hopkins wattmeter on which the recording chart is driven 96 times faster than standard...
...winning a special heat for boats that had placed second without get- ting any firsts. Dupuy, a daring driver who heeled his boat around the buoys so sharply that it resembled an oldtime cinema comedian turning a street corner, got away fast and held the lead for one complete circuit of the course. Tennes, away third, passed Everett on the first lap, caught Dupuy on the second. Chewing gum furiously, hunched in his cockpit like a football lineman, he drew away steadily for the next four laps, roared across the finish line with nearly a mile of open water behind...
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first President to put a woman into his Cabinet. Last week he became the first to put a woman on the Circuit Federal bench. Before he leaves the White House his friends think he will be the first to put a woman on the Supreme Court. A likely choice for this last honor would be bobbed-haired, blue-eyed Florence Ellinwood Allen whom the President last week appointed to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, only one step below the Supreme Court. To Miss Allen who now sits on the Ohio Supreme Court...