Word: dockets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eighty of the 130 U. S. Episcopal bishops convened last week in Davenport, Iowa for a meeting of the House of Bishops. Large on their docket lay the matter of appointing a new assessor (assistant) to the Presiding Bishop of the church, to succeed Bishop Hugh Latimer Burleson of South Dakota who died last August. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry had chosen his man and the House of Bishops approved: Bishop Philip ("Phil") Cook of Delaware. A tall, grey-haired, hearty, eloquent churchman, Bishop Cook has been a missionary on the Dakota plains, a vicar in Manhattan, a breezy...
...confusing cat-owning onetime Justice William Redwood Smith with non-cat-owning Justice William Amos Smith. The application by William Redwood Smith for a restraining order to prevent the city of Topeka from enforcing an ordinance limiting the number of cats per citizen to two is on the docket of the Shawnee County District Court, has not yet been acted upon...
...June 29 the R. F. C. lent $950,000 to Denver & Rio Grande Western R. R. Last week the R. F. C. released the finance docket on the loan. In it was found a one-sentence letter...
Cases put on docket...
Last week the Oil Scandals of the Harding Era passed finally into history. Swept from the docket of the District of Columbia Supreme Court in a five-minute session were the remaining three conspiracy indictments against the three principals- Albert Bacon Fall, Harry Ford Sinclair, Edward Laurence Doheny. Their dismissal was requested by Atlee Pomerene, special government prosecutor, on the ground that the charges had already been tried in earlier criminal cases. Before making his request, Lawyer Pomerene conferred with President Hoover...