Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Consul General Angus Ward hurried from a Communist people's court in Mukden, Manchuria last week to telephone the news to the nearest American diplomat, 400 miles away in Peiping. Ward and four members of his consulate staff had been freed from a Communist jail and were to be deported from Red China...
William H. Hastie LL.B. '33, a 45 year old Law School graduate from Knoxville, Tennessee, was sworn in Thursday as the first Negro judge of a United States District Court of Appeals...
Hastie received an interim appointment to the bench of the Third District Court of Philadelphia. Although the appointment by President Truman is subject to confirmation at the next session of the Senate, Hastie sat with the full bench yesterday on his first case...
...Each His Own. In Little Rock, Ark., the court awarded Mrs. Ruth Whitney a divorce and 231 household items, gave her husband "one rocking chair and one handmade doghouse...
Routine. In St. Paul, Elmer R. Hetting lost his suit for $26,703 personal injury damages when the court ruled that his fall down an unlighted stairwell was merely in his line of duty since he is city safety inspector...