Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...test came last week. Armed with a court decision, police dispersed picket lines at three mills (Whitman, Nonquit, Nashawena). By afternoon of the same day, radicals had defied the order against mass picketing, dared police to make arrests. Chief of Police McLeod took the dare, commandeered patrol wagons, moving carts, one ludicrous piano van. He packed 256 picketeers off to headquarters. Citizens noted that 237 of the 256 belonged to the Weisbord element...
...William R. Pattangall, Maine Democrat, since 1916 a justice of Maine's Supreme Court.* Reason: "The Democratic party . . . has for the time being passed into hands not properly qualified to administer...
...still the guiding oracles of Soviet policy. Stalin has triumphed over Trotsky and his chief followers, expelling them from the Communist party and banishing them from Soviet Russia. But last week Trotsky's case was brought before the Delegates of the Internationale as though before a supreme court of world Communist opinion. Friends of Exile Trotsky put forth a printed broadside containing the following appeal: "We raise before the Sixth Congress of the Communist Internationale the question of restoring us to our party. . . . "The banishment of us, soldiers of the October Revolution and comrades in arms of Lenin...
...Protestants deem the Tribunal equivalent to a ''divorce court," but Catholics indignantly explain that it merely has the power to declare the nullity of marriages which are already null due to some technicality. Thus is maintained the principle that the Holy Roman Catholic Church never grants a divorce...
...Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, Judge Edwin Yates Webb, in the case of the U. S. v. Isner, declared he had been a member of the Congress which passed the Volstead act, recalled well the debates on the subject, knew that it was the intention of Congress to define "non-intoxicating" at "non-intoxicating in fact...