Word: circuiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer of 1923 Fate played another of its tricks and Calvin Coolidge became President. There was no doubt whatever that Judge McCamant was the primum mobile of the chain of accidents which made our present President. And a grateful President last year appointed Judge McCamant a Federal Circuit Judge...
Having read of a similar case in old Hebrew documents, Judge Vincent Brennan of the Detroit Circuit Court called mother, foster-mother and child before him, and announced, falsely, that little Irene would be sent to an orphan asylum. As the two women received this intelligence, Klieg lights flared up, concealed cinema cameras whirred and clicked. Judge Brennan, assisted by psychologists, studied the resulting films. Calling the women back, Judge Brennan awarded custody of the child to Foster-Mother Goosen because the film showed "a much more biological emotional reaction on her part" (tears, sobs, quivering lips). Julie Goosen Pryzbla...
...ARMY & NAVY) of conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with the letting of contracts for hospitals, last week appeared to draw nearer to prison. He had been sentenced, with John W. Thompson, a contractor, to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, having reviewed the case, last week affirmed the lower court's decision. The convicted men may still appeal to the Supreme Court. It is alleged that they are very...
John W. Langley, of Pikeville, Ky., was convicted some 18 months ago of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law. Some twelve months ago he was elected to serve two years in Congress at a salary of $10,000 a year. Last week the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided that Langley should serve two years in the penitentiary and pay a $10,000 fine. The Supreme Court may have to decide which course Mr. Langley will follow...
...which resulted in a mild reprimand from General Washington, was not so sensational as the treason which followed it. The trial of Aaron Burr for treason was perhaps of equal national interest, but it was not a military trial but a trial before the U. S. Circuit Court at Richmond. The nearest parallel to the Mitchell trial is probably the Court of Inquiry in 1901 into the conduct of Commodore Winfield Scott Schley in the Spanish-American...