Word: docket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just the week for a meeting of the National Crime Commission in Washington, D. C. What looked very much like a grand scale attempt at jury-wangling was fresh on the docket, in the devious history of a successful and therefore widely admired oilman and a onetime Cabinet member (see CORRUPTION...
Outstanding Cases on the 1927 Supreme Court docket...
Hospital records showed that before the original "male" of the birth docket had been written an "f-e." Such penciled metamorphosis made Mrs. Sam Smith suspect that she was nursing a changeling. That was not her child, miscalled boy by clerical error. The other Smiths were authentically parents of boys, and were leaving the hospital. But Mrs. Sam Smith would not leave the hospital until she had a boy. Mr. Sam Smith hired a lawyer...
...larger quarters, greater appropriations. The nation's inventive genius, or more accurately the national penchant for protecting inventive genius, had increased until there was a patent application filed for every thousandth inhabitant-110,000 in a year. The Office found itself with 58,000 applications still on the docket, despite its having cleared up 35,000 hangovers from the last three years. For the first time in history, the Office had felt obliged to rid itself of its vast accumulation of working models. Some 50,000 designs patented prior to 1880 were turned over to museums; sime...
Victor Behar, of Glasgow, went to a quiet hotel and had his luggage brought up. In one suitcase he had a docket of papers, the pedigree of the rug attested by the curators of the Austrian State Museum and witnessed by the British consul in Vienna. It was at least 150 years old when the Shah gave it to Peter. Leopold used it as a tapestry in the bedroom of his summer palace. Other Emperors took good care of it; at last it went to the State Museum. French officials said that it was worth twelve million francs and taxed...