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...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...
...advance to the Supreme Court bench is that he is leaving the Attorney General's office, where I think he has been doing magnificent work."-William E. Borah. And these estimable greywigs had reason to be twice pleased. First because due largely to their own regulations, the docket is reduced to about 640 cases at present. Among those near the top of the list Mal S. Daugherty's case,+ Edwin L. Doheny's oil lease appeal case, and those involving judicial construction of the Constitutional terms "free speech" and "free assembly" are of most interest...
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...
Silence filled the jail. A guard pad-padded in, paused, grunted, swore in horror. Mr. Bethamen had strangled himself. ... On the police docket the charge opposite Bethamen's name read, quite simply: "Intoxication...
Every quarrel has its roots in misunderstanding, as the Good Book says. What Good Book? I fancy you'll find it on the police docket. And that there may be no misunderstanding. I am not the man who stuffs birds, nor the Crime colyumist who stuffs Harvard. I came in here while the real poseur was out astonishing the natives of Hanover, and I haven't the manner, no, nor the acquaintance with Central Square duennas, required to write this column...