Word: docketed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
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...
Innovations. At the opening session of the Court, Chief Justice Taft read the original docket, some of the cases on which are 20 years old-the first occasion on which it has been done in years. As usual the docket had grown by some 100 cases. The Court is more than two years behind in its business. The object of reading the docket was to put in force new regulations given to the Court by act of the last Congress, empowering it to decline to hear many cases and thus abbreviate its docket. Among the cases thrown out under this...
...business, may I sketch a meeting as held at any time this year? Two days before the date we receive a copy of the docket. At 10.30 we sit around the table, the President at the head. The Treasurer has placed before each of us two sheaves of paper: one, the list of changes of investments in the past two weeks by himself and the two members who compose the Finance Committee. These changes amount usually to several hundred thousand dollars. He has questions to ask about purchase of real estate, about important leases, and" internal problems of finance...