Word: mandamus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the next general election, but allows the Governor to fill the vacancy if Congress is in session. Senator Kendrick died 52 hours outside the one-year period and Congress was not sitting. Therefore, it was argued, a special election was necessary. Republican hard-shells promptly got out a mandamus to force Governor Miller to set a day for the voting. The State Sen ate rallied to the Governor and, in special session a fortnight ago, rushed through both houses an amendment to the election laws to allow for Joe O'Mahoney's appointment. In his youth...
...credit situation are such as to render a prompt return to the gold standard entirely feasible. The danger of an uncontrolled inflation, which is already serious, increases with every day of governmental delay in announcing a definite stabilization plan." Gold Demand. In Washington, Halsey K. Davis filed a mandamus action in the District of Columbia Supreme Court alleging that on Oct. 25 he had demanded at the Treasury gold coin in payment for a $20 gold certificate and had been refused. He demanded that Secretary Woodin be ordered to pay him $20 in gold-of the old value...
...military training. Student Coale claimed the same exemption on the grounds that the Methodist Church is against war. He was promptly suspended by Maryland's President Raymond Allen Pearson. Aided by his father, Ennis Coale took his case to court. A circuit judge granted him a writ of mandamus to force the University to reinstate...
...related to twelve priests, three bishops, one archbishop, one monk. He announced he would sue Mgr. Gassier for defamation and libel. The American Civil Liberties Union, always happy to have a cause to champion, offered to support a suit to recover this year's salary in full and a mandamus action to compel a public hearing. Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury sent congratulations, said Dr. Uhler was lucky to escape "servitude in such a hole." Said Dr. Uhler: "I realize that behind -my dismissal there are sinister and powerful influences, difficult to combat. ... I feel like...
...Wilbur had exceeded his authority under the Act of 1920. Two oilmen, Richard D. Vedder of California and Roy C. Barton of New Mexico, had asked Secretary Wilbur for a prospecting permit on U. S. lands. Secretary Wilbur had refused to receive their application. They sued for an order (mandamus) compelling him to consider their application as the law required...