Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there need for a radical change in the organization, conduct and regulation of the railroad industry which can be accomplished by Federal legislation...
Shifting his quid of tobacco from one cheek to the other. Senator Tom Connally of Texas last week laid before the Senate a 14,000-word report on the conduct of the 1932 Louisiana Democratic primary which John H. Overton won, which Edwin S. Broussard lost. Those who expected the Democrat-controlled Senate investigating committee to soft-pedal party scandals in the Pelican State were disappointed. Chairman Connally described the Huey Long machine, which elected Mr. Overton, as "vicious, deplorable and damnable." "I advise anyone who thinks he knows something about politics," said the Texan, "to go down in Louisiana...
...shouted Herr Arthur Görlitzer, Vice Chief for Greater Berlin of the Nazi Party, to a quaking roomful of civil servants whom he seemed to suspect of Monarchism. "Men who work for a restoration of the Monarchy we will treat as we do those who think they must conduct propaganda for Moscow. Indeed we now regard the Monarchists as more dangerous than the Communists...
...responsibility may be maintained and further advanced. In trying to keep the high intellectual standard which Harvard now holds the important thing about any system of scholarships is the "adequate choice from among the prospective candidates" the report says. "Even with our present funds it might be possible to conduct the interesting experiment of establishing in one area of this country (for example, in a portion of the Middle West) half a dozen thousand-dollar scholarships for entering Freshmen. A combination of school record, recommendations, special examinations, and personal interviews by competent judges should be tried in the endeavor...
...Affaire Starisky was defeated 360 to 229-the Socialists, who had been verbally lashing the Government, supporting it with their votes. To seal this victory the Left's great champion, M. Edouard Herriot, made a booming plea for a vote of entire confidence in the Government's conduct, put it through 376-10-205, after which the Chamber adjourned. Said Mme Stavisky, after attending the funeral of her husband who was buried with dispatch in Chamonix: "I don't know whether my husband shot himself or not but there is no doubt that he would still...