Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular bit of political strategy also required the President's attention. Aware that partisans were charging that his scheduled speech at Little Rock, Ark. during the Republican Convention at Cleveland was timed to steal radio attention from his political opponents, Franklin Roosevelt had Secretary Stephen Early write to Columbia and National Broadcasting: the President did not want the broadcasting of his speech to interfere with the Convention's time...
...committee investigating his old age pension scheme (TIME, June 1)- for contempt. The House, however, did not choose to make a political martyr of Dr. Townsend and two of his aides cited with him. Instead of trying them itself, the House shunted their case along to the District of Columbia courts...
...with T. Graham Brown of Cardiff, Wales, and Noel E. Odell, also a Britisher, will represent the Club. Carter has climbed extensively in Alaska, Emmons was a member of the Moore-Burdsall Expedition in the summer of 1934, and Loomis has climbed in Alaska, the Alps, and British Columbia. Brown, a noted English Alpinist, was a member of the Foraker party and Odell was one of the group which made the attempt on Everest in 1924. Odell and Brown have both climbed in the Alps with undergraduates in the Club and several years ago were elected honorary members. The other...
Samuel Crooks, who won the individual intercollegiate title last year under the colors of Rutgers, is ranked as one of the five best drivers in the United States. The time is not far distant, it is believed, when all colleges and universities will award letters in outboard racing. Columbia, Rutgers and Colgate thus far have awarded letters in this sport...
Chief Justice Hughes in his restrained dissent merely grabbed at straws in attempting to prove the New York law different from the District of Columbia statute which was invalidated in the famous Adkins decision in 1923. If there are any differences, they are of a highly technical nature and of small importance. All that concerned the majority of the court was that such laws interfere with the so-called "liberty of contract" which is protected by the "due process" of the fifth and fourteenth amendments. Liberty is taking on strange disguises indeed, when a state which tries to prevent...