Word: file
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas J. Mooney's long fight for freedom was advanced today when the U. S. Supreme Court granted permission to his attorneys to file a petition for an original writ of habeas corpus...
...tribunal did not assume jurisdiction on the writ application. It merely authorized attorneys to file necessary legal papers. Mooney's motion was the preliminary step in appealing from a decision by a lower court...
Result of the fight was a compromise, on "modified" vertically so happily worded that the rank & file at the convention burst into cheers as it was announced...
...behind cooperative self-help groups; to exempt from taxation the first $1,000 assessed valuation of homes and farms occupied by owners; to repeal the State sales tax, substituting income and increased bank and inheritance taxes. Having done the best they could to make EPIC palatable to the rank-&-file of the party, Messrs. Creel & McAdoo ducked out of Sinclair's victory banquet. Mr. Creel headed for Washington, Mr. McAdoo for Mexico. Neither has gone back since. The Democratic State Chairman washed his hands of the whole affair...
Through an atmosphere murky with the fog and rain of the Liverpool waterfront, passengers file gloomily aboard a freighter bound for more sunny shores. One of them is a young medical genius blighted by ill fortune, and he staggers aboard destined for an alcoholic oblivion, the precious serum with him. Another is the blonde and brightly smiling Lady Mary, who glimpses the doctor and has sympathy. Melodramatic, if you like, but "Grand Canary" makes a far better picture than most of Hollywood's infinite variations of the Arrowsmith theme...