Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steps. A trolley was passing on St. Charles St. The crowd jerked off its rod, stoned in its windows, punched up its "scab" motorman. For violating a Federal injunction protecting Public Service property, three men were seized by U. S. marshals, sentenced to jail by U. S. Circuit Court Judge Rufus Foster...
...strikes; 2) to impound strike benefit payments; 3) to stifle strike publicity; 4) to block strike meetings. No strike could be construed in restraint of trade. Temporary injunctions would be limited to five days and then only if the complainant posted a large bond. Violation of injunctions (contempt of court) would be tried before a jury. Applicants for injunctions would have to establish their case, not by affidavits, as now, but by sworn testimony to which Labor could make answer. Enjoiners would also have to prove they had made "every reasonable effort" to settle the dispute before resorting...
...Government started anti-trust suits against the four national meat packers-Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Wilson & Co., Cudahy Packing Co. There was no trial, for the packers went into court and consented to having a decree issued forbidding them to deal in other products than meat and its derivatives, likewise forbidding them to establish retail stores. In nine years, two major attempts have been made to have the decree rescinded. The U. S. Supreme Court in all its venerability each time reaffirmed the decree...
Last week a third move was made. Armour and Swift petitioned the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to modify the decree. Reason: that times have changed. Two arguments they made in chief: 1) that there are now 70,000 chain stores in the country, many of them selling meat. Already the chains are going into meat packing to supply their requirements-one chain already owns two packing plants and a sausage factory. The effect of the decree is therefore not to prevent the large packers from treading on others, but to be trod upon-to make them subject...
...rain descended the second day. Mrs. Watson took Little Helen Jacobs out to the centre court and gave her a baseline trimming. 6?3, 6?2. Mrs. Mitchell took Edith Cross out and almost gave her a trimming but Miss Cross finally found the chalk-lines and won, 6?3, 3?6, 6?3. Mrs. B. C. Covell and Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, runners-up at Wimbledon, continued the visitors' lessons in doubles play for Little Helen's benefit. The latter's partner, Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. 25 times a champion, needed no such instruction, but the final score...