Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow, perpetually astounded Correspondent Walter Duranty experienced spasms of amazement at the diffident manner in which the drama was handled in the Soviet press. Cabled he: "Today each Moscow newspaper gives their plight 66 lines of print in a brief double column with a bald single headline. 'On Drifting Station of Comrade Ivan Papanin.' Can you beat...
...behalf of the U. S. utility industry, Electric Bond & Share, largest utility holding company, last week presented a brief to the U. S. Supreme Court attacking the Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. On behalf of the U. S. Government, Messrs. Homer Cummings, Robert Jackson, Thomas Corcoran and Ben Cohen simultaneously filed a brief which asserted, among other things, that if Congress has the right to curb white slavery and bootleg liquor it "certainly is not without power to curb financial chicanery and abuses which have brought ruin to millions." Thus, after over two years of catch-as-catch...
...whole Act. SEC then agreed to hold the Act in abeyance while it brought a test case against Electric Bond & Share. When it got to court, however, SEC attempted to limit the test only to the necessity for registration. E. B. & S. lost twice in lower courts. Said its brief last week: "The Government is seeking to avoid and the defendant holding companies to secure, a test of the substantive provisions...
...professionals feel that they have been suffering from having nobody but themselves to practice with. After a brief glimpse at the local amateur field they chose the Crimson as being liable to offer some ready opposition...
...gentlemen in question were Ed Van Every, sports columnist of the New York Sun, Jimmy Powers, sports editor of the Daily News and Jack Miley, a former Daily News sports columnist. In brief and in sequence, Mr. Van Every had hit Mr. Powers. Mr. Powers had hit Mr. Van Every. Mr. Miley had hit Mr. Powers. Mr. Powers had hit Mr. Miley. For the first blow, Mr. Van Every had this explanation: "Powers swiped a story from the Sun, written by Herbert Gorem and used it in his out-of-town column. ... I asked him if he denied swiping...