Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senators Norris of Nebraska and Walsh of Montana led the last of the nipper-snapping against Secretary Mellon. They dug up an Aluminum Co. court case in which Mr. Mellon had deposed that he was consulted on important points of policy and from this attempted to argue that he was still in "trade or commerce...
Convict Sinclair did not hurry to serve his sentence. When commitment papers, were signed in the District of Columbia Supreme Court, Sinclair was not present...
...there is a possibility that he may pay a return visit to the same institution at a later date. He has been found guilty of contempt of court for putting Burns' detectives on jurors of his first Teapot Dome criminal conspiracy trial. Another six-month sentence hangs over him while the Supreme Court weighs that case...
...went to Santo Domingo a month ago as a Chicago banker and onetime U. S. Budget Director to devise a budgetary and accounting system for that diminutive republic. When he returned last week to Manhattan aboard the S. S. San Lorenzo he was the newly-appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Retiring Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton, who also returned to the U. S. last week, predicted a "happy and successful term" for Ambassador Dawes...
...thing led to another until last week found Lady Strabolgi, a Mr. R. H. M. Muller, her friend and neighbor, and Landlady Hanner all in court. It was charged that Lady Strabolgi and Neighbor Muller had, "to wit?struck, thrown about and kicked'' not only Mrs. Hanner, but also her daughter Joyce, who had gone to her mother's rescue with a bread knife...