Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time an evil gets into a proverb it is generally old and notorious beyond repair. Such are "the law's delays." For ;25 years bar associations and public men have been trying to speed up court actions. One big cause of court delays are arguments over practice and procedure. One half the questions on which Federal Appellate Courts must rule concern procedure alone: Federal Courts are guided by a complex and undigested mass of laws passed by Congress, of judicial decisions and diverse practices in 48 different State courts. Although every President since William Howard Taft has joined...
Just as dozens of New Deal laws transfer power from Congress to the President, so the new Federal Procedure Act transfers power from Congress to the U. S. Supreme Court. Heretofore that august tribunal has worked reforms only in the matter of speeding up appeals from below. Henceforth the Supreme Court will fix rules of procedure in all Federal Courts- conveniently simple, workable, and uniform rules that can be changed without legislation when conditions demand. In drafting its rules the Supreme Court will probably have the help of a special assistant to the Attorney General and heed the advice...
What Mardi Gras is to New Orleans and the Derby to Louisville, the 500-mile classic is to a city which once rivaled Detroit as an automobile manufacturing centre. Last week a crowd of 135,000 was sitting in the unroofed stands when the 33 cars, after gathering speed for a lap, rolled past the starter in groups of three. Around the 2½-mile brick oval with an unsteady, insistent roar, sidling awkwardly at the turns, straightening out for speed on the straightaways, whirled the bright-hued machines hardly bigger than toy-store cars. After 30 miles George Bailey...
...from his father who was a racetrack driver from 1907 to 1921. Young Cummings was born within earshot of the Indianapolis Speedway, learned to distinguish Barney Oldfield's car by its sound, promised his mother that some day he would win the 500-mile race. He gathered speed slowly, first as a Western Union messenger boy, later as a taxidriver. When he was 16, he began driving in motorcycle races, graduated to automobiles two years later. He finished fifth in the 500-mile race of 1930, entered unsuccessfully for the next three years. Meanwhile he made a good living...
Cotton mills were to slash operations 25% for twelve weeks to permit textile consumption to catch up with production (see p. 15). The silk industry had already taken a one-week holiday. Chemical prices were soft. Many a producer was cramming his warehouses with new goods at top speed for fear a strike would suddenly overtake him and his plant...