Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first trial, held under a change of venue in the little town of Bartow about 48 miles east of Tampa, was a broad education to Northern reporters, particularly representatives of the radical Press. Wires were tapped, rooms searched, frame-up attempted. At least one had the novel experience of being shadowed in his leisure moments by the defendants, who were free on bail. Presiding Judge was Robert T. Dewell, a corpulent Yaleman (Class of 1911), who was overwhelmed with appeals for impartiality from fellow Yalemen in the North. Five defendants were convicted and sentenced for kidnapping...
...valley, the pseudo-Renaissance building of the Carnegie Institute stands, blackened by 40 years. There last week critics of art, newspapermen and Pittsburgh's gentlest people assembled one evening to attend a brief ceremony in memory of Andrew Carnegie, then to crowd murmuring up the Institute's broad marble stairs into 17 galleries hung with 407 paintings by artists of 13 nations. The occasion was the opening of the 35th annual Carnegie International Exhibition, biggest competitive show of contemporary paintings in the world; If Leonardo da Vinci were given one evening of life each year to study...
Three Field Events will also take place on Thursday, the Discus Throw at 2:30 o'clock, the Broad Jump at 3 o'clock, the Javelin Throw at 3:30 o'clock...
...other broad front, the New Deal by its shortsighted labor policy has completely undermined whatever faith American business might have had in government as a fair arbiter of industrial disputes. The Administration's failure to put a quietus on sit-down strikes, the vicious new tool of John L. Lewis, and Mr. Roosevelt's tacit and at times open support of labor in all its disputes with capital, and finally the farcical "hearing" of the National Labor Relations Board, which has earned the name of being a C. I. O. affiliate, have all added to the spirit of unrest which...
...dinning hall system. There, coming out after their mid-day duties, were two young ladies whom we recognized as belonging to the Elephant House. One of them was clutching the other to keep from falling, dissolved in gales of laughter. The others face, too, wreathed in a broad grin. We watched for a moment, fascinated. Finally the laughing one sobered...