Word: courting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House and Senate roofs since 1940. While a complete $5,000,000 refurbishing went on-from new steel & concrete roofs to television and radio outlets-the House took up a temporary stand across the street in the new House Office Building. The Senate moved back to the old Supreme Court chamber which a 70-member Senate outgrew in 1859. (Both quarters are so cramped that the public will be excluded...
...curtains parted for the last time this term, and out came the U.S. Supreme Court justices to air in public no less than 39 interpretations of 17 cases before them. That was enough to make their record secure: they clinched the alltime record for dissents in one term-264 in an eight-month calendar of 151 cases. With that, they adjourned for the summer to ride off in all directions, just as they had been doing all through the session...
...Goldwyn sought a court injunction to prevent future awards...
Once before, the board had tried to suspend Standard's operations (TIME, Aug. 16), but the Court of Appeals threw out the ruling. CAB, said the court, would have to conduct hearings first. After six months of intermittent hearings, CAB was still of the same mind: Standard was too regular. It had told customers that it operated a daily flight from San Francisco to Chicago; it had conducted flights from Los Angeles to New York "on an average of all but two days of each week...
...cocky President Stan Weiss, the decision seemed like a conspiracy between the major scheduled airlines and CAB to get rid of Standard and its profitable cut-rate air coach business. Cried he: "We're going to take those so & so's into the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and try to get a stay...