Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week President Roosevelt and Citizen Herbert Hoover found themselves in cooperation. From the White House the President pressed a key which closed an electric circuit which exploded some dynamite which broke the ground for the projected San Francisco-Oakland Bay ("World's Greatest") Bridge. On Goat Island, in the middle of the bay, Citizen Hoover shoved a golden spade into the ground...
...Chrysler's products are not however the only Chicago cars stolen, for thieving is there a highly organized business. Youngsters equipped with keys, devices to short circuit ignition switches, etc., are hired to do the actual thieving. They drive the stolen car to an agreed spot where others pick it up and take it to a fence who strips it, dumps it out in a deserted street. A policeman finds it. and he (probably not having been paid for several months) may take off a few more parts to help support his family. The police then...
...Quaker students at Maryland are exempt from military training. Student Coale claimed the same exemption on the grounds that the Methodist Church is against war. He was promptly suspended by Maryland's President Raymond Allen Pearson. Aided by his father, Ennis Coale took his case to court. A circuit judge granted him a writ of mandamus to force the University to reinstate...
...Joseph B. Ely, Lieutenant-Governor Gaspar G. Bacon '08, Mayor R. M. Russel '16, of Cambridge, and Acting Mayor Joseph McGrath, of Boston. Others present included the Hon. Robert Luce '82, representative in Congress from the ninth district; Judge J. M. Morton, Jr. '91, of the United States First Circuit Court, and president of the Harvard Alumni Association; and Judge W. C. Wait '82, of the Massachusetts Supreme Court...
...others were receiving diplomas at the hands of Chancellor Hill of the University of Georgia. First called, honor student, Samuel H. Sibley, now Justice of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, New Orleans. Says the Chancellor: "Sam, you are a brilliant, fine boy, etc, and I predict a life of great achievement for you. I'm proud, etc. etc." Next, alphabetically next. Gene Black. The Chancellor hesitated, looked at Gene, tried to begin, hesitated, hummed, then gave up and said "God bless you Gene...