Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reading marathon complete, Judge Nields decided that 1) the affidavits were contradictory in matters of fact; 2) the briefs brought into dispute grave questions of law; 3) since the Norris-LaGuardia act prohibited the issuance of injunctions in labor disputes without the appearance of witnesses in open court, the Government could not have the injunction it sought against Weirton Steel. Declared Judge Nields: "The case illustrates perfectly the propriety of the procedure prescribed by Congress. . . . Not only is there a conflict of material facts but there are serious and intricate questions of law involved, particularly the question...
Respectful applause followed Mr. Davis back to his seat. As far as the U. S. was concerned. Disarmament was evidently already in the grave...
When they were arraigned in court the next day, the prisoners found themselves facing the grave charge of inciting to riot, and were held in the exorbitant bail of one thousand dollars each. The trial held in the police court presided over by Judge Charles S. Sullivan, could hardly be matched for its farcical character. Exposures of perjured testimony for the prosecution were systematically ruled out by the judge as "incompetent," photographs of police violence were barred as evidence, pointed questions asked by the defense attorneys were overruled as often as possible, and in general every effort was made...
...President shortly afterward imposed his tenth veto on a bill to place a bronze tablet bearing a design of the Congressional Medal of Honor on the grave of Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap, U. S. M. C., in Arlington Cemetery. His objection: it established a precedent contrary to Cemetery rules and constituted a discrimination against other holders of the decoration buried at Arlington. ¶ The President signed a municipal bankruptcy bill by which bankrupt towns and cities may, with the consent of a Federal District Court and 75% of their creditors, compromise their debts to get back on their financial...
...even such grave threats to his country's serenity President Masaryk does not allow to disturb the calm tenor of his daily life. Maintaining the burning interest in all varieties of subjects which has caused him to write books on everything from Hypnotism and Suicide to Marxism and the problem of small European nations, he still reads voluminously in four languages. He loves a brisk canter on horseback, or a romp with his small grandsons, children of Charles Revilliod, who only a few years ago used to play naked as jays in the gardens of the presidential summer palace...