Word: courting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only two years while he could jail him for 500. Thereupon, U. S. District Attorney John Cahill arraigned and indicted sweating Louis Buchalter on ten counts of narcotic smuggling that might tuck him in prison for 164 years. Dewey men cooled their heels in the U. S. Court...
...Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts of the U. S. Supreme Court took note of Presidential chitchat in his behalf, announced at Scranton, Pa.: "I am wholly unavailable. I am perfectly satisfied where...
...Corporation is at the same time the executive and legislature of a miniature state inhabited by 8000 students and 2000 Faculty members, the Board of Overseers is in theory the Supreme Court. This body of thirty alumni, chosen for five years in an election open to all Harvard graduates who have held their degrees for five or more years, by statute holds ultimate vote power over all the Corporation's decisions...
...Newcomer McDaniel and Oldtimer Weir, matching aggressive play with brilliant tactics, kept the partisan crowd of 1,500 in seesawing shrieks of delight and dismay before young McDaniel won the match and title, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Besieged by dusky damsels, Champion McDaniel was swept off the court, signed his autograph until his hand was numb. They all thought he was good enough to represent the U. S. on the Davis Cup team...
...Klein was not only crestfallen, he was embarrassed. He had to recall his printed invitations to listen in, and it was difficult to explain to acquaintances that his appearance had been canceled because he was just too good. So Mr. Klein filed suit, in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court No. 5, asking no specific damages, since the Hobby Lobby experience cost him only time out from business, carfare, etc., but leaving it up to the court to prescribe suitable balm for his injured pride...