Word: courting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fill vacancies in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the President appointed Calvert Magruder, counsel of the Wage & Hour Administration (1st Circuit, Boston) and Democratic Governor-reject Walter A. Huxman of Kansas (10th Circuit, the Southwest...
...13th Century). When he rises to speak, the House hushes. On an automobile ride in 1937 with the late Majority Leader Joe Robinson, Speaker Bankhead, Majority Leader Sam Rayburn and Senator Ashurst, he announced the first serious opposition to President Roosevelt's plan for altering the Supreme Court by saying: "Boys, here's where I cash in." He would not receive the Court bill in his committee and forced the Senate to consider it first...
Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins last week told Commissioner of Immigration & Naturalization James L. Houghteling to proceed at once with hearings on the deportation case of Communist-suspect Harry Bridges, C. I. O.'s West Coast leader. After the Supreme Court's inconclusive ruling (TIME, April 24) that past membership in the Communist Party is not a deportable offense, she guessed the U. S. would have to prove: 1) that Australian-born Harry Bridges was a Communist at the time (March 1938) that his deportation warrant was issued; 2) that Alien Bridges advocates overthrow...
Franklin Roosevelt nominated him to the Securities & Exchange Commission to fill the vacancy left when William O. Douglas was appointed to the Supreme Court...
...Washington, D. C, Salesman Albert R. Clark owed $61.80 to a haberdasher when he lost his eyesight and his job. Shortly a credit association began to dun him by letter. Charging that the letters upped his blood pressure, hindering his recovery, Albert Clark sued for $10,000. The Court of Appeals overruled a motion of the defendants to throw out the suit, saying: "Neither beating a debtor nor purposely worrying him sick is a permissible way of collecting a debt...