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outlined in hobnails, crushing Nicaraguan homes. Also the League planned to seek through the courts a writ nullifying Postmaster General New's order...
...jail. Meanwhile sheriffs hurried up from New Jersey to complicate his chancery. Warrants were out for his arrest. The Splitdorf Electric Co. complained that Acosta owed $4,445 for electrical equipment in a plane with which he planned to try for the endurance record. A sheriff's writ attached the plane. Acosta climbed in by night and flew it to Connecticut...
...case was the final hearing and determination upon the writ of habeas corpus. The keeper of the jail of Amesburgh is ordered to have before the court the body of John B. Nemo, who has been detained and confined in the common jail of the city of Amesburgh by virtue of an order of deportation and commitment pending arrangements for deportation made by Vincent Cummings Esq., Commissioner of Immigration...
...Bryce-Powell and Sanford Clubs will meet in Langdell Hall at 8 o'clock to settle the final round of the annual Ames Competition, before the full bench of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the competition in a final hearing and determination upon the return of a writ of habeas corpus. The keeper of the jail of Amesburgh is ordered to have before the court the body of John B. Nemo, who has been detained and confined in the common jail of the city of Amesburgh by virtue of an order of deportation and commitment pending arrangements...
...Alaska in 1905. Mr. Perovich attracted attention in 1909 by protesting that his constitutional rights had been violated when President Taft commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. In 1925 a Kansas district court upheld Mr. Perovich's protest, so he was released under a habeas corpus writ and became an active barber. But, last June, the U. S. Supreme Court upheld onetime President Taft in considering the life sentence more merciful than the death sentence (TIME, June 13). Only President Coolidge remained to keep prison bars from terminating the prosperous barbering business of Mr. Perovich, who now hopes...