Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Misfortune has dogged President Hoover's North Carolina appointments. When he tried to reward that State for its 1928 vote by elevating Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of Charlotte to the U. S. Supreme Court, the Senate tore his nominee to bits, raised unwelcome racial and labor issues, refused confirmation (TIME, March 31 et seq.). Last week it seemed likely that the outcome of the President's second attempt to do the Old North State a political favor would be much the same. Observers began to wonder who was responsible for the White House's political advice on North Carolina...
...neutralize the din. Last week Dr. J. P. Foltz, engineer, invited scientists to the Westinghouse Research Laboratories, East Pittsburgh, Pa. to show them a small contraption which could analyze the street car's rattle-bang-clank-screech. The machine consists of a microphone, an amplifier, a filter circuit which allows only one wavelength at a time to pass to the meter for measuring. Since the machine weighs only 60 lb., is independent of outside current, it can easily be transported from one noisy place to another...
From Columbus the piece journeyed to Cleveland, to Pittsburgh, to Washington where it again swung into the Western circuit under playdoctors' orders. Meanwhile it was receiving either awed accolades because Actress Barrymore was in it, or courteous, unimpressed reviews. It was clear that it was not yet fit for the big time and Actress Barrymore repeatedly refused to have her picture taken in blackface. This was probably due to the fact that she was fussing with her makeup, making it lighter and lighter, going from minstrel-show black to high brown. Also, the dialog was being freed from much...
...recently published book, "Universities: American, English, and German", Dr. Abraham Flexner attacks, among other things, the Harvard Business School. It tries to "short circuit experience", he charges...
...statement will be issued by the Business School in regard to the charges in this book. Dean J. C. Baker of the School replied yesterday. In regard to the "short circuiting" of experience, the book continues, "it is one thing for economists and sociologists to study the phenomena of business in a school of business or department of economics, but it is quite another thing . . . . for a modern university to undertake to 'short circuit' experience and to provide advertisers, salesmen or handy men for banks...