Word: conant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Erwin C. Conant is a well-built, middle-aged citizen of Massachusetts, having residence in a suburb of Boston. His hair is greying. He has had to adopt spectacles. He likes work and he likes peace. Lately he was called to serve on a jury that was to decide whether or not the Mayor of Chelsea, Mass., and 13 others were guilty of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. Unlike many citizens Mr. Conant did not wiggle out of his manifest duty. He was impaneled with eleven others, who elected him their foreman. For six weeks the trial continued...
...before he left court, Foreman Conant arose and made an impromptu, unexpected speech. He said so much in such short space, that his words went far beyond the courtroom, went abroad to lay trial-by-jury as it sometimes operates today, before the bar of the body social. Foreman Conant said...
...didn't go, but why ask me to remember what scores of witnesses have said over a period of six weeks? There may be a man in the United States who can remember what all those witnesses said, but that man is not Erwin C. Conant...
...thumb their noses at Geneva fireworks. But even Mexico and the United States seem to gain little amity by their isolation from councils and permanent seats. Just what has caused the latest row will be Professor Hackett's subject tonight at 8 o'clock in the Common Room of Conant Hall. Professor Hackett is a visiting lecturer from Texas, so he ought to know...
...Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and that of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem will figure on the screen in Professor Conant's 12 o'clock lecture in Robinson Hall today to Fine Arts 3a. Probably these two churches have been the goal of more vagabonds in history than any other buildings in the world...