Word: docketed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into the onetime Senate chamber in the north wing of the Capitol came nine men, just back from their summer vacations. They were the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court. They looked at the docket and their faces fell...
Appeal of John H. Parrott (Docket No. 1). Submitted August 19, 1924, to the Board, all members present...
...Thus Docket No. 1 passed into history...
...your Board permits its docket to become congested, the Government is delayed in the collection of its revenue and in order to operate must find revenue elsewhere. For the next few years, back-taxes are a very material part of the Government's receipts. During the last fiscal year they probably ran as high as $400,000,000. . . You should not permit yourselves to be lost in involved and tedious law suits. Make yourselves an administrative body to settle taxes. Give speedy decisions. To delay is to deny justice−both to the Government and the taxpayer...
...another season of labor has concluded. He and his associates have recessed for the Summer. In October of 1923 they had assembled to find 580 cases on the docket. In June, 1924, they adjourned leaving 412 cases on the docket-44 more cases than they had left the June before...