Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Connecticut constitution requires a governor to sign all legislation within three days of the adjournment of a legislature. In the last ten years, Connecticut governors have approved bills leisurely, long after the three-day period. Last week the Connecticut supreme court of errors threw the state's legal machinery into serious confusion by invalidating, through a test case, 1,493 laws, large and small, which governors had thus signed unconstitutionally. Jeopardized were the gasoline tax, city charters, banking laws, the amusement tax, public appointments, salaries. One act disqualified was the act increasing the salaries of the judges who voided...
...this mess." As he stepped out of the plane, he asked: "What's the matter? As soon as I get out of the state, you boys start raising hell." Promptly he summoned a special session of the legislature to repass en masse all the legislation voided by the court...
...Spending less time with more women, he began an active public life. He wrote pamphlets and books on finance and history. One such opus, well-worded, eclectic, seditious, got him appointed "out of harm's way" as diplomat-at-large to the Court of Berlin where he nearly succeeded in embroiling Germany and France, at a time when there was "not a cent in the French treasury." France's poverty, he found, was due to the predatory habits of nobility and clergy. Against them he, a people's deputy in Paris, attempted to unite King and People. Of the despised...
...lost a suit for plagiarism against the producers of a film The Little Match Seller which he claimed was a copy of a play he and his mother had made out of the late Hans Andersen's The Little Girl and the Matches. Besides refusing his claim, the court ordered him to pay $4,000 damages to the film producers, $600 damages to the theatre which withdrew the film when he filed his suit...
...brand of chocolates protruding from his pocket," was an aspersion on his amateur status. J. S. Fry Sons, Ltd., the chocolate makers, replied that Cabinet ministers (and Charles Spencer Chaplin) had been shown in the same series and had not sued. Golfer Tolley retorted: "Cabinet ministers are professionals." The Court agreed, awarded him $5,000 damages. This verdict encouraged attorneys for Helen Wills, who protested the use of her picture, without consent, in some British patent medicine advertisements...