Word: dockets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forthwith, a good deal of the filling in was done by John H. McEvers, special assistant to Attorney General Cummings who had been sent from Washington to clean up the last big gangster tax case left on the Federal docket. Prosecutor McEvers passed over Flegenheimer's novitiate in crime, which began when he served an apprenticeship under the late Jack ("Legs") Diamond, was interrupted when Flegenheimer went into hiding after his indictment two years ago, and officially ended when, terrified by the Government's bloody drive against the nation's mobsters, he gave himself up at Albany...
...dancing partner (Bentley Stone). While masked jurors look on stupidly, the crime is three times re-enacted as different witnesses saw it. Revolver shots ring out from the orchestra. The jury believes any story. The pompous judge makes no decision, pounds his hammer for the next case on the docket...
...schedule. Brown and Holy Cross have been met with a 50-50 record of success and failure. In the next three weeks Dartmouth, Princeton, and Army invade the Stadium on successive weekends. That's about as hard a stretch of five games as any Eastern college has on its docket...
...result was Casey's experiment of trying first Frank Schumann in place of Bob Brookings at guard and now Burton for Lane at tackle. Schumann is on the docket for a lot of work on Saturday as a first-string relief man. The starting lineup will be: Knapp, le; Burton, lt; Brookings, lg; Comfort, c; Gundlach, rg; Adlis, rt; Kelly, re; Haley, qb; Litman, lhb; Bilodeau, rhb; Jackson...
...minority of America's annual graduating classes of more than 200,000 is fitted for any profession or occupation, precludes any logical argument against Professor Ulich's conclusion. Thousands of actual cases can be found throughout America where college men without any specialized training, are either on the unemployed docket or working at posts requiring but a grammar-school education. In contrast to the medieval university that offered the few scholars enlightenment in the sciences and arts, the modern university seems, in many cases, to be the seat of a social sphere and a superficial dilettantism...