Word: circuiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, the Kirkpatrick decision was reversed and Broker Norris exonerated. More, the U. S. was flayed in a decision which said: "It appears that while the legislative department of the Government has deliberately and intentionally made the purchaser of liquor guiltless of any offense under the Prohibition law, the executive department of the government seeks here, by indirection, to make the same fact, namely the purchase, a crime subjecting the purchasers to a maximum fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for a term of two years...
During the past year the present circuit has been extended to include Lang-dell Hall and a number of student clubs. The new system, in addition, will supply the new units of the House Plan and the gymnasium with heat. The Business School is already supplied by a spur which runs through the Weeks Memorial Bridge...
Last week, as it must from time to time, the Keith vaudeville circuit cleaned its houses. From orchestras and balconies were swept gum wrappers, cigaret butts, hairpins, miscellaneous and refuse. From stages were swept all manner of objectionable "gags" and "business." In other words, a Keith bureau whose duty it is to keep Keith shows moral-reverent-safe sent out a censorship manifesto prohibiting certain remarks and actions made by Keith vaudevillians. These were listed in Variety, slangy theatrical trade weekly. Sample "gags" prohibited...
...speakers for the evening: Joseph H. Beale, Royall Professor of Law, one of the editors of the first volume of the Review, Perey H. Winfield, Rouse Ball Professor at St. Johns College, Cambridge, England, W. G. Thompson, prominent member of the Boston bar, Julien, W. Mack, United States Circuit Judge and a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School...
...Pennsylvania Circuit Court of Appeals, Miss Alice Gulielma Rowland and Miss Eleanor 0. Brownell, operators of the medium-fashionable Shipley School for girls at Bryn Mawr, Pa., were refunded $2,586.66 paid as income tax, although a lower court had ruled that the school was not a corporation entitled to "personal service classification." The higher court ruled that because of the "close personal contact between the teacher and the taught," the school's "money income must be ascribed to the activities of the Misses Howland and Brownell, its sole stockholders, for without these two women's daily, personal...