Word: circuiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in two Federal Courts, three U. S. Judges made rulings on the Prohibition law. In Chicago, Judges George T. Page and Albert B. Anderson of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that "nose evidence" is good evidence, that the mere smell of liquor in a restaurant is enough to cause that restaurant to be padlocked for a year. Law-abiding restaurant-keepers, must now employ detective- waiters to search customers for hip-flasks and hidden bottles before they serve them with cracked ice or ginger ale. Prohibition agents need no longer search and buy; they...
...Fatty" (Roscoe Conkling) Arbuckle, onetime cinema comedian, signed two contracts last week- to appear in vaudeville on the Pantages Circuit;* and to act in a series of films made in Germany. He expects to earn $2,500,000 in five years. Since the orgiastic, accidental death of one Virginia Rappe in 1921 no U. S. producer has dared risk the national opprobrium against "Fatty" Arbuckle. Last week he looked both doleful and healthy...
Both the Yale Union and the Dartmouth Debaters on Circuit "will sound the death knell to formal and intercollegiate debating" according to simultaneous announcements from both Hanover and New Haven. Prophesies like that are notoriously easy to make and do not count for much in themselves. What is far more important at present than the relative merits of the two proposals, upon which no judgment can fairly be pronounced so early, is the incidental publicity which they will afford to collegiate debating. Space, headlines, discussion, all these are blessings which will give no negligible impetus to a languishing...
...encyclopedia for further information concerning Dr. Brashear.* Prior to the death of Dr. Brashear, it was considered that no banquet was complete without having on its roster one of the three prominent J. B's of Pittsburgh: James Francis Burke, famed Pittsburgh lawyer, Judge Buffington of the Circuit Court of Appeals, and Uncle John Brashear, as he was affectionately known...
...been disturbed. Cause: the Senate's refusal to confirm his appointment of Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania to the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Jan. 31). It was the second rejection by the 69th Congress. Previous one: Wallace McCamant, "original Coolidge man of Oregon," to be Federal Circuit Judge. Judge McCamant had once said of Theodore Roosevelt: "Theodore Roosevelt was not a good American...