Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ardent apostle of the House Plan who had given $26,000,000 to install it at Harvard and his alma mater Yale, had decided to make the House Plan's early home a laboratory for his second educational enthusiasm, the Conference Plan. Next year Lawrenceville, armed with a blank check signed Edward S. Harkness, will abandon classroom instruction, set an enlarged faculty to conversing helpfully with its students across polished conference tables...
With an old-fashioned phonograph strapped on his back, a sawed-off megaphone and a bundle of blank aluminum records, a lean, scraggly-haired New Yorker has been touring the South for the past nine years, collecting Negro songs that few white men have ever heard. Like his older brother Artist Hugo Gellert, Collector Lawrence Gellert is an ardent Left Winger. He scorns the idea that most Negroes when left to themselves will either sing spirituals or dance to the blues. The songs that fascinated Lawrence Gellert were those symbolic of Negro class consciousness, unrest and despair. From more than...
...Finance Committee continued its fifth week of wrangling over the new tax bill and finally, after Vice President Garner talked turkey, decided to make a dummy report consisting of a blank sheet of paper with the title of the bill. Thus the Senate might get debate started before the subject of debate was settled...
...other states investigating the Legion found its odor distinctly unpleasant. Outraged Pontiac. Mich, citizens, hearing that many of their city officials were connected with Legion activities, began an inquiry of their own. The appearance of Wayne County Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea's name on a Legion membership blank caused a fine furor in Detroit. To Washington went frantic wires from the Midwest begging the G-Men to step in. Introduced in the U. S. House and Senate was a joint resolution demanding a Congressional investigation...
...Chicago last fortnight Conservation Director Samuel Barry Locke of the Izaak Walton League screwed up his courage, wrote a letter to Senator Harrison asking point-blank what truth there was in the rumor that he had used his influence to bring the Walley brothers' case to its shocking conclusion. Back came a prompt and courteous reply. "To the extent that I had known these young men and their parents over a great number of years," wrote the Senator, "I did attest to their character. ... If my letter to the District Attorney asking for leniency brought any results...