Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigation of un-American activities Mr. Dies has brought principally a $25,000 appropriation, a willingness (common to Congressional ferrets) to hear what he believes, a succession of renegade leftists, ex-union officers and members turned talebearer, avowed spies, patriotic citizens bursting with information about the Reds. Mr. Dies also has taken testimony about U. S. Nazis and Fascists, has even accepted aspersions against such personages as Tom Girdler. But in the main he has stayed on the Red trail previously traversed by New York's Representative Hamilton Fish...
...notices which reporters swiped from their publishers' newspaper morgues. Typical hold-for-death quotes from anti-Benson newspapers: "Elmer A. Benson will go down in history as one of Minnesota's outstanding Governors. . . . Governor Benson displayed courage, forcefulness, and never yielded in his fight to aid the common man. . . . Even his enemies called him great...
Fountains wreathed with water babies, alabastrine goddesses and war groups in battling bronze were the common stuff of U. S. sculpture before Primitivism came in and chiseled its ears off. Lately critics have observed that from that chastening sculptors as a class have emerged with a burst of modest but lively ingenuity. Last spring a new Sculptors' Guild took over a vacant lot in Manhattan. made news with a big outdoor exhibition (TIME, April 25). Last week the Brooklyn Museum's luminous galleries held a more impressive show by the same Guild, whose membership includes the illustrious names...
...board chairman will be Amory Houghton, Corning's president and fourth-generation descendant of that company's founder; its president, Harold Boeschenstein, vice president and general manager of Owens-Illinois. And Fiberglas' 27,500 shares of $100 cumulative preferred, 402,500 authorized shares of no-par common will be sold not to the public but to the step-parent firms...
...rumored that Granville Hicks '23, American History Counselor for Adams will debate Thursday against his Leverett classmate Theodore Morrison '23, assistant professor of English, in the Goldcoasters' Common Room. The subject is to deal with social significance in literature...