Word: courting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Confirmed the nomination of William Orville Douglas to the Supreme Court...
...Manhattan last week for the same offense that undid his pupil Al Capone: cheating on his income taxes. Slit-eyed, impassive sat Johnny as 34 of the Government's 75 witnesses told on him. Then one morning his high-powered lawyer, Max D. Steuer, did not appear in court. Johnny Torrio and two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Government of $86,000 in taxes between 1933 and 1935. The Last of the Big Shots, who once spent seven months in a Waukegan, Ill. jail for running a brewery, looked forward...
Democrat John Nance Garner, Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. ignored or declined invitations to sponsor her appearance. So did Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, presumably because he thinks Justices should shun partisan controversy. But Chief Justice & Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes accepted with pleasure, as did Associate Justice Hugo ("Klan") Black. For all who did not, New Dealer Ickes as Secretary of the Interior made things doubly uncomfortable by proffering the Emancipator for a backdrop...
Last week the 458 women were brought to trial on an old tennis court. The judge sat under a shade tree and the ascetic defendants stood in the sun, dressed in chaste white robes. Chief Shembe gave his followers a good character. "We never have fights," he said, "not even quarrels." But the 458 female Nazareth Baptists were found guilty of manslaughter. Punishment was spread thin over the entire group. Sentence: for eleven leaders, six months in jail; for the others, three months with sentence suspended after a promise to behave...
...Parker House next Wednesday, showed up as having quite a good band in his battle of music with Red Norvo a short time ago... Casa Loma's new album for Decca is supposed to be excellent, with Louis setting in as guest trumpet player on "Rockin" Chair"... Court decisions get more complicated with one judge in New Orleans recently handing down a decision to the effect that "the aforesaid plaintiff does have a solid band in the true New Orleans style, and should therefore he paid his wages...