Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court's decision avoided specifying how much such cost must be a factor in the I. C. C.'s evaluating system. That was the railroad's mighty victory...
...State investigation of Mayor Hague prepared to go forward. He had already twice defied his inquisitors to pry into his "private affairs." Well circulated among Republican politicians in the State was a report that he would defy them once more, send his case hopelessly to the U. S. Supreme Court, then slip quietly away to England, where he had bought a permanent home and banked a fortune...
...most vicious of them are court-martialed, shot, dumped into the Gulf of Mexico where the sharks quickly eat their cadavers. Foreign agitators are kept in discomfort aboard the Maximo Gomez, an old battleship, until they can be deported...
...Manhattan last week, Dr. Hannah M. Stone and her associates who taught a woman how to control conception (TIME. April 39), were discharged in magistrate's (police) court. The magistrates decided that New York State laws permit a doctor to give birth control instruction when the doctor acts in good faith. Instruction may be to unmarried as well as married women, so far as the New York law indicates. Unsatisfied with freedom alone, the Stone group insisted upon knowing who instigated their arrest. They suspected Roman Catholics and said so. Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen avoided a direct answer...
...Reich. Opponents pointed out that no one man has the moral balance to decide on another's death. It apparently did not occur to the German debaters last week that lethal decisions, before the act, might be left to a jury of physicians or to a court...