Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Appeals. Importers were irate at a provision of the bill which would take from them the right to carry their appeals on valuation matters before the U. S. Customs Court. The valuations fixed by appraisers were made final, subject to review only by the Secretary of the Treasury (i. e., a staff of clerks in the Treasury Department...
Congressman M. Alfred Michaelson comes from Chicago. In the House, he votes Dry. Last week he was prisoner-at-the-bar in the squat, red-brick U. S. District Court at Key West, Fla. Judge Halstead L. Ritter peered curiously at Conggressman Michaelson through large, judicial spectacles...
...court, try as he would, Congressman Michaelson could not seem to remember that visit, that statement...
...said the Moran gang had a bold plan to "get" Capone himself when he went to Chicago last month to testify in a U. S. court. Chicago police who met Capone's train unwittingly thwarted them...
...John Francis Curry, at the head of Tammany Hall (TIME, May 6). Only one issue has really stirred the sluggish depths of New York's electorate-the price it must pay for a subway ride. Mayor Walker won that issue when the U. S. Supreme Court rejected a 7? fare plea, upheld the nickel (TiME, April 15). He has the support of the Hearst papers (American, Evening Journal). Criticism of him as a flibberty "do-nothing" by other, more respected Manhattan journals carries small political weight. The arch-Democratic New York World expressed a preference for Mayor Walker over...