Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressional investigations have the primary purpose of uncovering facts, the Louisiana congressman said. Senator Ferguson, chairman of the Senate investigating committee, agreed, but said the broad authority of such groups "entails responsibility for fair and judicious hearings," since rules of trial law do not hold in these inquiries...
...regular New England AAU competition, Boo Morcom, "the barefoot boy from New Hampshire," won the pole vault championship with a hoist of 14 feet; Rudy Forbert, a barrel-chested Tufts junior, took the broad jump at 21 feet, 6 1/3 inches; and Olympic hammer thrower Bob Bennett won the regular 35-pound weight throw with a loft of 52 feet, 1 7/3 inches...
...Harvard entries will compete in the New England Amateur Athletic Association pole vault, broad jump, and 35-pound weight throw this afternoon at Briggs Cage, but Sam Felton, last year's varsity record-breaker, will be on the bring line in the weight event. The three events will start...
...daily labor-owned press frankly speaking from a labor viewpoint can counteract ostensibly public-interested press actually talking the language of business. Ideally, the goal does not lie in this course, but rather in Winn's independent citizen venture. Under the leadership of Marquis W. Childs, for example, a broad-based group of Easterners has invested from $10 upward individually to found a cooperative radio station in Washington, devoted to the public interest and freed from the lone motive of profit of the ordinary out-let or, on the other hand, the possibly prejudiced orientation of the labor-owned stations...
...sporting house for furnishing them "a comfortable home." When their father was trying to get established in some new town, Dreiser's sisters would suddenly appear with young men of tainted reputation, parading down the streets in flashy finery, with spit curls, rouged cheeks, patent-leather shoes and broad-brimmed hats with ostrich plumes...