Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between Feb. 1 and Dec. 1, 1935. Outraged, he promptly hired one of Washington's smartest lawyers, Frank J. Hogan, defender of Albert B. Fall, Edward L. Doheny, William P. MacCracken Jr. and Andrew W. Mellon (TIME, March 11, 1935). Last week Lawyer Hogan marched into District of Columbia Supreme Court, charged that the Black Committee had instituted an unconstitutional "inquisitorial investigation and fishing expedition" into his client's private affairs, got a temporary injunction restraining Western Union from handing over the Strawn telegrams...
...Manhattan at 10:45 one evening last week Earl Russell Browder, general secretary of the U. S. Communist Party, was scheduled to speak for 15 minutes over the Columbia Broadcasting System. It was the first time a full-fledged, thoroughgoing Red had ever appeared officially on a national radio network. That morning readers of Hearst's New York American, glancing down the list of Station WABC's evening programs, found Boake Carter at 7:45, Cordell Hull at 8:30, Walter O'Keefe at 9, Ed Wynn at 9:30. The program note for 10:45: "Talk...
...hour before the broadcast some 100 patriotic and prosperous members of the National Americanization League, led by a be-spatted onetime alderman from Manhattan's "silk stocking" district and a burly onetime major general in the Irish Army, appeared before the Columbia Broadcasting building, marched up & down the sidewalk with small U. S. flags and placards lettered SMASH COMMUNISM and BROWDER IS BORING FROM WITHIN...
Princeton, N.J., March 18--Captain Howland Stoddard was the solo Harvard wrestler to qualify in the first day of competition in the Eastern Intercollegiates here today, when he throw Barnet of Columbia with a half-nelson and body at 4.01, and then pinned Masher of Cornell in the semi-finals with a hammerlock and half-nelson...
Johnny Harkness reached the semi-finals and took one point for a fall when Pappas of Columbia was disqualified for crawling off the mat, but he was later thrown by Shaffer of Penn State. In his first bout, Bill Glendinning beat Cobb of Cornell by a time advantage of 8.56, only to be edged in the semi-finals by Chew of Princeton by a referee's decision in overtime...