Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal District Court he pleaded that he was being held without justification, lost the case. Early this year he won a partial victory. The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the lower court unjustified in holding him for larceny, but justified in holding him for extradition on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He next appealed to the Supreme Court, without success. The U. S. State Department issued an extradition order, and last week Captain Hatfield reluctantly entered the custody of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. As he set off for Ottawa to await trial he hoped...
Yale and Dartmouth are on the other hand, through with the toughest part of their circuit, games, except for their dealings with the Crimson. Here again Harvard will have plenty of difficulties for it engages Dartmouth in a double-header, and the prospect is extremely unlikely that it can nab both ends...
Last week in Cook County's Circuit Court Congressman Mitchell sued the Illinois Central, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Pullman Co. for $50,000. Plaintiff Mitchell's description of an Arkansas Jim Crow car: ". . . The car was divided by partitions and partly used for carrying baggage, . . . poorly ventilated, filthy, filled with stench and odors emitting from the toilet and other filth, which is indescribable." His description of the language a Southern train conductor used on a member of the U. S. Congress: ". . . Too opprobrious and profane, vulgar and filthy to be spread upon the records...
...Unseeing Dr. Claus continued his plea. The 13-month-old dog rolled over on his back, waved his paws, swished his tail. Dr. Claus stopped talking, unleashed the dog. With a bound Rex leaped to Chairman Bulwinkle, licked his hand, his chin. Then the big pup made a circuit of the room, pawing Congressional knees, shaking Congressional hands. After a final shake with Chairman Bulwinkle's daughter, called in from the next office, Rex returned to his master, nuzzled his knee. "The subcommittee," twinkled Congressman Bulwinkle, "will favorably report this bill...
Fortnight ago one of the country judges sitting in Cook County's Circuit Court (TIME, April 26), Joseph E. Daily of Peoria, ruled that the marriage was valid in such a way as to cause many a Hoosier and Sucker (Illinoisan) couple to raise their eyebrows. Ruled...