Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court of the United States made it plain more than 50 years ago in the case of Van Auken vs. U.S., 96 U.S. 366, that the issuance of a check for less than a dollar was not an offense under the act unless there was also the element of intent to circulate the same as money...
...proposed amendments to the State constitution; one of them providing for an increase of the Governor's salary from $4,000 per annum to the appalling (decided so by the people of Texas) sum of $10,000, the other providing for some reforms in the Texas Supreme Court. However, both of these proposed amendments met with defeat...
...Union will not pay their Governor but $4,000 a year! A State with a population well over ten million will not pay their Governor as large a salary as the Federal Government pays their representatives to Congress! The State of Texas will not reorganize their Supreme Court into modern form! . . . This situation is ridiculous...
...Shearer appeared on the Washington scene in 1924 as a naval expert, the inventor of a one-man torpedo. When the U. S. S. Washington was towed off the Virginia Capes for sinking by airplane bombs, he rushed into court, vainly sought an injunction to prevent the Navy from destroying this vessel under the terms of Washington Arms Treaty. Later he admitted that Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Anglophobe, had paid the cost of that empty exploit...
...precipitate a Congressional investigation of the Navy, but they did stir up trouble aplenty within the Navy itself. Lobbyist Shearer explained that he had received his information from private and confidential letters exchanged between naval officers studying at the War College. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur convoked a court of inquiry at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Captain Hugo W. Osterhaus was suspected of '"leaking." Lobbyist Shearer went to the Pacific coast. too busy there with other naval affairs to help out of difficulty those who had given him his information...