Word: circuiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kansas circuit, Burton K. Wheeler was rebuked. Leading Republicans* admonished him, brought it to his attention that politics was one thing while "merchandising half-baked scandal," "raking up unsupported allegations," "mudslinging," constituted quite another. "Very prettily said," retorted Mr. Wheeler; and continued his attacks on the Coolidge and Dawes pre-office records, through Caldwell, Wellington, Herington, McFarland, Topeka...
...merits of the three Presidential candidates, Coolidge, Davis, and La Follette, will be discussed tonight in Phillips Brooks House, when the Cambridge Circuit Epworth League will hold a meeting in Peabody Hall at 7.30 o'clock...
...state of Wisconsin and one from Kentucky, the plaintiffs were charged with contempt of court for making threats to loyal shop-men in the strike of 1922. The accused contended that the question of fact in the contempt charge must be tried by a jury, and appealed through the circuit course to the Supreme Court. The judges of the lower courts believed that they were given sole jurisdiction over such cases, but their judgment has been conclusively set aside. Henceforth, picketing, threatening and similar strike procedure, when carried on in defiance of an in junction, will be checked only...
...William S. Kenyon is a onetime U. S. Senator from Iowa, now a Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
After years on the Grand Circuit, Geers was urged by friends to quit racing. He had had many accidents, was 30 aging. Friends bought Peter Manning, presented him to Geers, begged him to drive exhibitions only. Spirited, Geers could not refrain. He seldom whipped a horse, never raised his voice. He sat his seat immovable, hunched forward. Called "The Silent Man from Tennessee," Geers never swore. Neither did he drink alcoholics. His passions were cigars, clean sportsmanship, straightforwardness, philanthropy and ice-cream. A millionaire at his death, he died as he would have liked to-in a hot race...