Word: docket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators to give him a vote of confidence last week, in the earnest hope that he would resign forthwith, Arturo Illas triumphantly boomed that he would do nothing of the kind. Out in high dudgeon strode just enough Senators to forestall a quorum, leaving a docket choked with 600-odd bills including preparations for Cuba's forthcoming Constituent Assembly...
...that time he took a legal trouncing in a suit against Alcoa. Later his law firm represented Baush Machine Too! Co. in its prolonged efforts to recover from Alcoa $9,000,000 in triple damages for as an impressive a list of unfair trade practices as ever brightened a docket. In the end the famed Baush case was settled out of court, but meantime Mr. Cummings had become chief prosecutor to the New Deal. Hardly was he well settled in Washington before the Department of Justice started to investigate Aluminum Co. of America and the income tax returns...
...other sports contests are on the docket for tomorrow as the first big Spring Sports weekend approaches. Outstanding at home will be the New England Relay Carnival in the Stadium and the lacrosse match with Dartmouth on the Business School Field...
...Court is fully abreast of its' work" - it has heard arguments this month in some cases on which appeal was 2)granted For only the six four terms weeks from earlier. 1930 to 1935, the Supreme Court has had from 1,023 to 1,132 cases on its docket each term, had left over at term's end from...
...deplorable misinformation" of Attorney-General Cummings is the only possible reaction to Hughes' account of the efficiency of court procedure. The use by Cummings and the President of the false postulate that the inherent weakness of their case. Some of the the court was running behind on its docket shows bitterness of President Roosevelt's Victory Dinner declamation must be neutralized by the incontestable fact that the "Nine Old Men" have kept up with their work, if anything reviewing, in Hughes' opinion, more cases than necessary...