Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, reversing the Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, which in April 1937 reversed a previous decision of its own, the Supreme Court of the U. S. settled the breakfast-food issue. Out of a solemn huddle came the Justices with a decision that the term "shredded wheat" did not belong solely to National Biscuit Co. Six-to-two (dissenters: Justices McReynolds and Butler), they found "shredded wheat" simply a generic term by which a "biscuit in pillow-shaped form is generally known to the public...
...employer or employe who objects to the wages fixed by Mr. Andrews may kick directly to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in his area, thence...
Nevertheless, some 300 of the country's best golfers last week prepared to spend the winter trudging around the "grapefruit circuit," a coast-to-coast series of tournaments sponsored by southern hotels, newspapers and chambers of commerce...
...bench" on Wednesday night will be Judge Morris A. Stoper, of the United States circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth District; Judge Horace Stern, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; and Judge Vincent L. Leibell of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York...
...story concerns the difficulties encountered by one Harry Quill, a rug salesman with a yen for old time vaudeville, in putting on the annual show for his lodge. After assembling a collection of moth-eaten variety artists, one-time headliners but now hovering on the brink of the Borsch circuit, Quill encounters opposition in the form of Tropp, chancellor of the Lodge, who calls the whole thing off because Quill won't let Mrs. Tropp sing three Schubert Songs to infuse tone into the entertainment. But the villain is foiled, and by the use of false telephone calls...