Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away down the river valley. At commencement time every U. S. school & college delights in singling out for honor the winners in its four-year race. West Point and Annapolis, however, keep from the beginning a point record of each cadet's, each midshipman's scholarship and conduct. At the end his class standing can be computed with an adding machine. Each academy releases to the Press a complete list of its graduating class, with ranking. West Point hands out its diplomas in that order. As Cadet Richardson of Gibson Island, Md., trim, erect, redhaired, marched forward...
Thoroughly vexed by the conduct of their colleague, South Carolina's Ellison D. Smith. Senate Democrats last week used legislative force upon him. Leader Robinson proposed to discharge from Senator Smith's Agriculture Committee the nomination of Rexford Guy Tugwell to be Undersecretary of Agriculture. Only then did the Senate win a promise that the promotion of the President's chief braintruster from a $7,500 to a $10,000-a-year job would be reported...
...dirt farmer consisted chiefly of having managed his father's apple, peach, plum, cherry and pear farm during summer vacations from college. When Senator Byrd began to question him about his radical beliefs, he twisted and dodged. Yet he was saved from any real embarrassment by the conduct of the hearing. A partisan crowd filling the room applauded, yelled, booed, shouted "We want Tugwell!" and "Hurrah for Byrd!" The Senators were no more restrained. When Senator Murphy accused Chairman Smith of attacking the Administration, Mr. Smith, red faced, jumped up, shook his fist under the lowan's nose...
...flirtatious Empress Eugenie (Mady Christians). Instead it turns out to be the Empress's vivacious little hairdresser (Lilian Harvey). The song was written for and dedicated to her by her sweetheart, an ambitious young musician. He does not much mind losing her when he gets a chance to conduct the opera company that the Duke supports. Slight, implausible, edged with a thin glitter of cruelty and sentiment, Heart Song illustrates an important point in cinema technique. In Hollywood, the accepted procedure for musical films is to elaborate and enlarge. Heart Song, which was financed by Fox and Gaumont British...
...President Dodds last week, "and we'll furnish the boys." Princeton has been getting ready for four years. Its School of Public & International Affairs was launched in 1930, with Harold Dodds as administrative chairman. Its present husky, genial Director is DeWitt Clinton Poole, 48, author of The Conduct of Foreign Relations under Modern Democratic Conditions, which he wrote from long experience as a U. S. diplomat in Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Petrograd, Cape Town. An administrative unit, the School embraces the College Departments of Politics, Economics, History and Modern Languages. It has upped enrollment every year, this year reached...