Word: circuiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will Make Circuit of Spain...
Once a year the "fastest ship in the world" is taken off the transatlantic express service. In order that U. S. babbitts may dash once around the Mediterranean and back to work, the Mauretania makes that circuit every winter at a speed considerably above that of Balkan express trains...
...Senator Charles L. McNary, the other Senator Robert N. Stanfield. They brought the President news which he was not glad to receive. They told him that the Judiciary Committee of the Senate could not be induced to recommend the confirmation of Judge Wallace McCamant of Oregon as Federal Circuit Judge-McCamant who nominated Coolidge in 1920, and who allowed himself to be forced into saying that Roosevelt "was not a good American" (TIME, Feb. 8, POLITICAL NOTES...
...Cropley had taken the matter to Justice Sutherland, who is assigned to the Pacific Circuit. Justice Sutherland shook his head. He said that the Supreme Court had already decided on the issue brought up, and the decision was adverse. Nothing could be done. Chief Justice Taft had said the same thing; so had Justice Sanford...
President Coolidge, nothing daunted by the Warren affair of last spring, is preparing for another brush with the Senate. Through the White House spokesman he has just announced his intention not to withdraw the appointment of Judge McCamant to the Federal Circuit Court, which the Senatorial Judiciary Committee has recently rejected...