Word: circuits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Friendly, mild-mannered, solid Homer Ferguson was just another circuit judge until 1939. Then a woman "numbers" operator, jilted by her policeman lover, left a suicide note which uncorked a bad smell in Detroit's police department. Judge Ferguson was assigned to sit as a one-man grand jury to investigate the smell...
...circuit judge, Ferguson won respect from legal eagles; as an investigator, the respect of all Michigan. Although he refused to take time out for campaigning, he was re-elected by a landslide last year...
...Mori's track will be spared close competition; it is the only race track within 25 miles of Philadelphia. Operating in midsummer, between the closing of Delaware Park and the opening of Havre de Grace, it will fill a gap in the midEastern Seaboard's horse-racing circuit. Well aware that racegoers have spent record-breaking millions at Maryland and New York tracks this spring, ingenious Mr. Mori figures that his park should attract plenty of Philadelphians this summer. It is 10? by bus, 12 minutes by auto (even at 30 m.p.h.) and only 200 yards from...
...Missouri he named hulking, blue-jowled Robert E. Hannegan, formerly assistant boss of as slick a political machine as St. Louis ever saw, until indignant St. Louis voters turned it out a year ago. St. Louis groaned; it had trounced the machine for giving it some of the worst circuit judges in history, for conniving in the State Democratic organization's attempt to steal the Governorship (TIME, March 23); it wanted no more of Hannegan & Co. Snapped the Post-Dispatch: "The President's action is an affront to thousands of citizens...
...pretty, American musicomedy star with a headful of russet red curls, Miss Hayworth meets Dresser on the Chautauqua circuit, irks him to Manhattan, sings his songs, falls in & out of love with him to the final fadeout. Director Cummings never lets these familiar tactics grow tiresome. Blessed with some truly imaginative and exciting sets, some of the best musical arrangements of this or any other season, a powderbox-full of new dance routines, inspired costuming, he manages to make the gaslight era seem just around a very inviting corner...