Word: dockets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time this year Bulgaria's firing squads had nothing to do. The People's Courts had run through their docket of war criminal trials. Score: 2,007 death sentences, 1,986 executions. (The 21 condemned persons who had not been shot could not be found.) Another 3,064 prisoners were jailed for terms from a year to life. Among them: famed Liberal Konstantin Muravieff...
...these parties were only a fraction of those to which the Trumans were invited-and went. By this week the schedule was settling down to a steady canter. The Vice President's office had three dates on the docket, but there were about five more in the offing. High mark was an invitation from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh (Hope Diamond) McLean...
...South Sans." A band of "Tex-Mexes" (boys of Mexican ancestry) poured in from the West Side to join the battle. The police alarm was serious. In war-booming San Antonio juvenile crimes had rocketed in a single year from 10% to 50% of the cases on the police docket, and there had been three juvenile murders. When the battle was over property had been damaged and no less than 75 boys had been cut and bruised by sticks, stones, knives...
Thus refreshed, the justices faced the biggest docket since 1941. There were 513 cases pending-322 ready for the conference room, where the justices argue and debate, agree and disagree, are finally assigned to grind out the decisions...
Aerovias Braniff's request for permission to fly into the U.S. will add another problem to the Civil Aeronautics Board's crowded docket. Under the Good Neighbor policy, the U.S. cannot gracefully block a Mexican company from entering the U.S., if U.S. lines are to enjoy the right to fly into Mexico. But if Tom Braniff's Aerovias Braniff is allowed to cross the border, other U.S.-controlled Mexican companies may naturally be expected to apply for routes to the U.S. The result might be to create more lines than, potential traffic warrants...