Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fill 20 new Federal judgeships, one of the biggest single batches ever.*In the President's files were endorsements for 223 candidates for these vacancies -important political ammunition in an election year. And while the President studied his shots, more Federal Court vacancies came to hand, in the Third Circuit Court at Philadelphia. A rugged rock in the path of the New Deal steam roller was this Third Circuit Court. Four of its aged justices-Joseph Buffmgton, J. Whitaker Thompson, Victor B. Woolley, J. Warren Davis-had worked together for years in closest conservative harmony...
Republic Steel Corp. NLRB was right in demanding, and retiring Justice Joseph Buffington's Third Circuit Court of Appeals was wrong in denying permission to withdraw and revise the Republic record before the corporation appeal is heard...
...loaded with bombs, revolvers and rifles. British emergency regulations, prescribing the gallows for possession of arms, have been applied against Arab terrorists. Last week a British military court showed it could be equally stern with Jewish terrorists. The court condemned two of the young Jews to hang, sent the third to an insane asylum. Sole hope of clemency remained with Major General Robert Hadden Haining, commander of the British Palestine forces, who must confirm the sentences. If confirmed, the two convicts will be the first Jews to be hanged in Palestine since British occupation...
...years later, the first screen version, with Ann Harding, Mary Astorand the late Robert Ames in the leading roles, indicated amazingly that in talking pictures the cinema industry had found a medium which could rival the stage in its appeal to civilized, adult audiences. Now in its third edition, Holiday proves capable of providing one more shock...
With Paul planning to devote full time to graduate work and instruction as a tutor in the Department of History and Stackpole moving his office in University Hall down one floor, Huntington Thom '35, of Washington, succeeds to the Conant secretarial post. Thom is a third year Law student...