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...British Air Ministry for a two-weeks option, provided he would test his machine on a government motor instead of on a motorcycle engine in his own laboratory, Matthews melodramatically seized an airplane and hopped off for Paris just as process servers reached the field to serve a writ of injunction on him from Edgar Grubbins, A. H. Daley, and J. S. P. Sanborne, English capitalists who claim to hold the majority rights in Matthews' invention. According to Grubbins, Matthews was penniless when he met him, and the entire expenses of the experiments were paid by the business...
...official standing of Holy Writ in the 48 states...
...Stranger. Hope for the cinema lies in a photoplay like this adaptation of John Galsworthy's story, The First and the Last. It is a sensitive and sensible study of the regeneration wrought in each other by two London outcasts, with only a single quotation from holy writ. A little bedraggled mill girl (Betty Compson) comes across the wastrel younger son of a wealthy family (Richard Dix) when the fortunes of both are ebbing away in their cups. Finding a new incentive in each other's love, they are about to depart to the inevitable South Africa...
...impossible. Instead of pursuing this plain remedy for injustice that may have been done by the trial Judge and securing by an appellate court a review of this very serious question on the merits, they sought by applying to a sin He Judge of only coordinate authority for a writ of habeas corpus to release the petition on the ground that the trial Judge was without jurisdiction to make the decision he did. This raised the sole issue whether the trial Judge had authority to decide the question, not whether he had rightly decided...
That he suspended the right to the writ of habeas corpus...