Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week the U. S. Supreme Court, which had been probing into I. R. T. affairs, opined (Justices Willis Van Devanter, George Sutherland, Pierce Butler dissenting) that the 7? fare was unnecessary...
...case had been in court more than a year. Last year a Federal Court upheld the 7? fare but it was never put into effect (TIME, May 14). Last week's Supreme Court decision, although it overturned the first decision, left the case still open and in the hands of New York's Transit Commission for final decision. The commission, however, favors nickels...
Eagerly U. S. editors once played up cables from Imperial Austria, hinted daringly the senile eccentricities of Kaiser Franz, frankly glorified U. S. maidens privileged to be presented at his Court, and got out screaming extras when the suspicious, hidebound old Emperor was finally tricked into taking his first automobile ride by Wilhelm...
...marrying an unshackled modern, a newspaper woman, with dark hair brushed straight back like a boy, Monica was shocked, but contrived to ask lightly: 'Is anybody shackled nowadays, my dear?' 'Oh, we all are! . . . People who dress for dinner, I mean, and are presented at Court, and take in the "Quarterly Review...
...wooden legs. Meticulous, he specified: "I should desire that female patients should be preferred to males." For 69 years the hospital has been obeying his instructions, but the need has been dwindling. Rare is it now that amputations must be made. Hence the hospital recently asked a Massachusetts probate court, and last week was granted, permission to merge the Bowditch leg fund with its general fund...