Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unions and the employers' associations bind themselves by signed agreement to accept the ruling of his Arbitral Board of Five. Two arbiters were chosen from each side. Umpire was a sterling Lancashire man, Mr. Justice Rigby Swift of the King's Bench Division of the High Court. Finally the Prime Minister declared that in case of proven need the Government would grant a "temporary accommodation" (presumably a Treasury subsidy) to keep wages at the old level while the industry is getting on its feet...
Judge Selah [B. Strong] of the New York Supreme Court is quoted as declaring : "Frankly, a separation action [in the U. S.] is usually alimony-grabbing and nothing else...
Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, spending six months in a Washington jail for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate, petitioned President Hoover, through the Department of Justice, for commutation of sentence. His reason: ill health...
...event. They run into five figures. America had Blakelock, painter of dark, glowing Indian encampments, who was committed to an insane asylum and kept in for the greater part of his life. It is well for the Fauves* of Paris that solicitous friends and relatives never sought court injunctions. Wild-beast Henri Matisse is still considered batty by many a staid U. S. art critic...
Manhattan now has an artistic Dreyfuss case. Last week there went to the chambers of Supreme Court Justice Curtis A. Peters, one Albert Dreyfuss, sculptor-49, stocky, German-looking, black mustache, baldish head, a harassed expression. He came for a private hearing to establish his sanity so that he could sculp without interference...