Word: dockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Margaret Harpstrite, a conciliation commissioner in Los Angeles children's court, happened to tell her boss, Judge Georgia Bullock, that an interesting case was on the docket: Actress Susan Hay ward and her estranged husband Jess Barker were coming in to talk over the custody of their children. "Fine," said motherly Judge Bullock. "Let me know when they come...
...expand section (10)j of the law so that more efficient restraining orders can be filed against illegal acts on the part of employers. Or the national Labor Relations Board could discourage the delaying practice by jumping cases involving particularly obstructionist employers or unions to the top of its docket...
...Great Language Problem has popped up on the docket of every Faculty meeting in the last few months, only to be sidetracked by more urgent business. When it finds time, the Faculty should chew the problem over thoroughly, and then make some broad changes. For there is a general dissatisfaction with the content and instruction of the College's basic and intermediary language courses...
Other physical and educational improvements are on the docket. The University desperately needs a new Library, to replace rickety old James C. Colgate Library, which clings to the side of the Hill like a medieval castle, and is equally as comfortable...
...least amount of publicity, sponsors hope to nudge the amendment through the necessary number of state legislatures and present the public with a fait accompli. In many cases, legislators have been as hoodwinked as their constituents. In Kentucky, the bill was voted before it ever appeared on the legislative docket. In Massachusetts it passed unnoticed in the last minute rush at the end of the 1941 session...