Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Assignment of judges by the senior circuit judges...
...financial connections of his rich brother Paul. A fine speaker, he set a House record when he was a Tennessee Congressman (1919-33), having been allowed to keep the floor for four hours. although the rules impose a one-hour limit. Previously he set another record as a Federal Circuit judge, hearing 12,000 cases in eight years and being reversed only 18 times. Once, while a lynch mob was besieging a jail, he tucked his night shirt into his trousers, hurried to the scene, announced: "This court is now in session. Anyone who violates the court's orders...
...formal complaint against the offender, giving him 20 days to reply. Then FTC holds hearings, comes to a decision. If it is an affirmative decision, FTC then issues a cease-&-desist order, which is a sort of informal injunction. A cease-&-desist order may be appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals and then to the Supreme Court but reversals are rare. Since 1933 more than 50 FTC cases have reached the Supreme Court but FTC lost only one and that by a 5-to-4 decision...
...character, is the author's voice for a detached account of Cathedral life. Added to these central characters are the staff of functionaries who make up the tightly-organized, beautifully-landscaped, fabulous world of a great English cathedral. Lay characters appear in sufficient numbers to afford a gossip circuit between the Cathedral and the town-a female psychiatrist belonging to the "generation of blue-stockings who were defined as women who were no longer ladies, but had not yet become gentlemen," a neurotic old maid on a manhunt, uninhibited servants. It is a lay character also who brings about...
...plague o' both your houses." It was the week in which Labor's even dearer friend, Madam Secretary Perkins, at last admitted (after the preceding week's Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decision) that the potent Sit-Down was an illegal weapon, deplorable and unworthy. And it was the week when John Lewis' C.I.O. was being blamed, rightly or wrongly, for terroristic acts with dynamite at Bethlehem Steel's plant near Johnstown...