Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the bloody election-day revolution of G.I. veterans had swept him out of office (circuit court clerk) last year (TIME, Aug. 12, 1946), Ivins tried to grab control of what was left of the discredited Democratic machine. Last April he was blocked from election as county Democratic chairman by a faction led by one Lake Dunn and his nephews, King and Charles Dunn. A few nights later, on Etowah's main street, Burkett Ivins shot and killed his eighth man : ailing, limping, unarmed Charles Dunn. At his trial, Ivins swore that Dunn had threatened to beat his brains...
Aces for Shippers. In Washington, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Taft-Hartley law superseded all previous NLRB decisions on foremen; no employer was now required to bargain with them. Bolstering this was a dockside opinion from Harry Lundeberg, boss of the A.F.L. sailors' union on the Pacific, and an enemy of Bridges. Said Lundeberg: "This is a phony beef...
...Pikeville, Ky., Crawford Casebolt, a 13-year-old seventh-grader convicted of using a pistol to rob a man of an auto, a watch and $4.84 in cash, was sentenced by Circuit judge R. Monroe Fields "to spend the rest of his natural life at hard labor," the minimum sentence possible under Kentucky's armed robbery...
...summer of ripening on the big-time Eastern tennis circuit had done wonders for California's easygoing Pancho Gonzales. Last week, on successive days, he vanquished three of the game's brightest stars-Jaroslav Drobny, Bob Falkenburg and Frank Parker-to reach the semifinals of the Pacific Southwest tourney. Then he went down before 26-year-old Ted Schroeder, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, who in turn bowed to Big Jake Kramer, the champ...
...when Robert ("Skee") Riegel, 32, made a brilliant shot. Riegel won 2 and 1. The new king of amateur golfers is a broad-shouldered ex-football fullback at West Point who says he lives in Monterey Park, Calif, but actually lives out of a suitcase on the amateur golf circuit...