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Word: circuiter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wiley Rutledge did, indeed, have geography. Born in Kentucky, the son of a circuit-riding Baptist preacher, he had lived, studied and taught in nine states, from Indiana to New Mexico. But he had more than that to recommend him. Always more a teacher than a practicing lawyer, he had made one reputation as a scholarly law-school dean before he came to Washington, made another on the bench there as an able, hard-working judge. So on Feb. 15, 1943, hearty, dignified Wiley Rutledge became Franklin Roosevelt's eighth and final appointee to the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Death of a Scholar | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

When Labor Secretary Maurice J. Tobin asked that the Labor Department be given power to sue employers for wages, Congress turned him down. In Manhattan last week, the circuit court of appeals ruled that the Wage & Hour Division of the Labor Department could sue to collect overtime even though the workers involved had not filed suits. Ruled Judge Learned Hand: "The [Labor Department] ought to have the power...Many deserving claims might otherwise be lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Right to Sue | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Stanford was re-elected last June. When the town council of Brentwood refused to seat Stanford unless he took the full oath, including the clause on religion, he appealed to the Prince Georges County circuit court to order the council to seat him. Then he set about preparing his case for a hearing late this month. The court will be asked to decide whether the Maryland code is depriving Stanford of his constitutional rights under Amendment 14, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution, which protects basic civil rights of U.S. citizens from abridgment by any state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Freedom of Worship? | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Through recent articles in several medical journals, and in interviews last week, Dr. Soresi expounded his pet theory: that the nervous system is like an involved electrical circuit, and that pain is felt only when there is a short circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Short Circuit | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Soresi, who has been denouncing pain for 30 years, hopes some day to have his own laboratory to probe deeper into the resemblance between the nervous system and an electric circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Short Circuit | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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