Word: dockets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criticise when the picture of the lower courts is painted dark and dismal. District courts throughought the country, and especially in populous and important financial centers, like the lower New York area, are bogged down in labyrinthinc legal tangles that take years to unravel. While cases sit on the docket for months in and months out in the vain hope of coming to trial, money is lost to all contenders as settlements drags out to the edge of doom, and the inevitable lawyers hover about like harpics waiting for their fees...
Long have prophets of evil gloomed over the troubles that will come when the U. S. first tries to reduce Relief expenditures. Last week Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins returned to his office in Washington and ran head first into a docket of such troubles. For while he was conferring with his regional administrators in New Orleans, his Assistant Aubrey Williams had announced the first Relief...
...irrationality of the assignment of these to the graduating young men was slated for a clean-up during the first year of the Conant reign. And then for the second year. And it is still on the docket unless that docket has been thrown away and they've sent out for a clean...
...usual punting and point kicking drill was followed by work on the dummies yesterday, one of the best blocking and tacking practices of the season. Pass offense was next on the docket, with the eight "first string" backs alternating passes against the C team. Two "Navy" team then took the field to give the Varsity defense a final checking. Kicking under pressure and signal running completed the afternoon's schedule...
Also on the docket yesterday were discussions of Armistice Day Peace Plans, membership drives, and the relationship between the American and Harvard Student Unions...