Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What we are hearing (if we hear anything at all) is something of far less dramatic import-a sort of airborne Agony Column, with a dash of the Court Circular thrown in: 'Will M'Bongo please return from the yampatch. All is forgiven . . .' 'Is there a witch doctor in the kraal?' 'The chief's brother-in-law, a person of the noblest character, will arrive tomorrow...
Good Company.The government asked for a court order to make the Lorain Journal stop all this. (Penalty for disobeying: fines and jail sentences.) Attorney General J. Howard McGrath emphasized that the suit did not abridge freedom of the press. Said he: "As the Supreme Court pointed out in the Associated Press case, freedom to keep others from publishing news is not guaranteed by the Constitution" (TIME, July...
Last week the Illinois Supreme Court threw out the Mandatory Fair Trade Act, the fourth time in six months that state courts have invalidated such laws. The court did not rule on the legality of price-fixing itself. It simply held that the Illinois law was so poorly drawn that it was impossible for "every person [to] know its meaning . . . and his rights...
...pains, Wald gets only $2,700 a week, about half of what he is worth to a top Hollywood studio at the going rate for production geniuses. Even on a living scale modest for Hollywood bigwigs (a ten-room house without swimming pool or tennis court), he moans that he can save little of it after agents' fees and taxes. Though tied to his handsomely austere wage by an optionless long-term contract that runs through 1951, Wald gets some comfort from recognition. He flirts occasionally with another studio to learn how much he is really worth, and does...
Bouquet. In Walhalla, S.C., Etta Jackson won a suspended sentence after explaining to the court that the twelve half-gallon jugs of bootleg whisky dug up in her garden were placed there only to make the flowers grow better...