Word: dockets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Receive Docket Two Days Ahead...
...news of Mr. Ford's activities as banker and investor might have attracted no attention. Railroads, however, are in a class apart, no matter who owns them. Permission to increase railroad capital or debt must be respectfully submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission for its approval. On the docket of that body, therefore, will shortly come up the request of Henry Ford, owner of the D. T. & I. that he be permitted to sell $1,181,000 of the roads's 5% bonds to Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer...
...Authority for the Supreme Court to select and reject cases on its docket for consideration in accordance with their importance, in order to overcome the increasing congestion of the Supreme Court docket; authority for the Supreme Court to make rules improving and reforming the procedure in Federal Courts; appointment of a commission to reform and expedite procedure under the criminal code...
...there were 644 cases on the docket, including 25 cases under advisement and awaiting decision. This was about 50 more cases than awaited the Court when it assembled a year...
...Chief Justice's smile could not be dimmed for long. Year by year, the docket grows longer. But it also grows interesting. This fall, the Court will treat itself to hearings on the Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Tax, the Kansas Industrial Law and the case of Mai Daugherty, who denied the right of a Senate Committee to examine the books of his National Bank...