Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Heflin owns any real property in the state of Alabama, he derived title straight from the Pope. At least this seems to be the holding of the Supreme Court in the old case of Mayor oj Mobile vs. Eslava (Alabama, 1839) reported in 9 Porter 577. The following excerpts are taken from the opinion in that case...
...Superior Court Los Angeles, Calif...
Descending from on high, Mr. Hoover visited and addressed the Brazilian Congress in its eight-sided, starry-domed chamber. The Brazilian Supreme Court also awaited his coming, listened to his words...
Later in the week, however, the Court was moved from Kabul to Kandabar...
...with Slavic-Byzantine fancies and foibles? Profoundly religious, she had resisted a change of faith, then, suddenly veered, passionately to avow Greek orthodoxy-was it for love of the Cesarevitch, or for ulterior reasons? Considering the influences of liberalism, political if not moral, at her British grandmother's court-would she encourage her royal spouse to grant a constitution? In any event, the poor child was to be pitied coming as she did to a gloomy court that awaited the death of Alexander...