Word: conning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display in the Germanic Museum a well-rounded representation of the con-objective works of Vastly Kandinsky, Russian painter who pioneered in revolutionary trend toward post-impressionism during 1909 and 1910. The exhibition, presented by the College Art Association through the assistance of Karl Nierendorf and several other lenders, will be on view until April...
...practical purposes all the arguments pro & con had already been exhausted. With three or four more weeks of hearings in prospect, not the merits of the issue but the behavior of its Senatorial pro-&-antagonists became the greater influence upon its fate...
Stocks. Statistician Roger Babson, pious and efficient moderator of the Con-gregational-Christian Church, declared that church boards now might well put their money in stocks rather than bonds. And in view of frequent churchly criticisms of Business, the Federal Council should appoint a committee to tell the churches what companies are "run according to Jesus Christ." Moderator Babson diagnosed Protestantism's basic trouble as its declining birth rate, thus perplexing listeners who recalled that a year and a half ago he was for birth control as a cure for poverty...
Died. Michael J. ("Mike") Galvin, boss of Chicago's Truckdrivers, Chauffeurs & Helpers Union, oldtime labor lieutenant of the Teamsters' Boss Cornelius ("Con") Shea; of wounds inflicted by 29 slugs fired from shotguns by passing gunmen; in Chicago. In a 30-year feud between the Galvin "outlaw" union and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, assassins have shot down Bosses George ("Red") Barker, William ("Three-Fingered Jack") White and Paddy Berrell...
Many a lesser expert shouted his pro or con. But Dr. Freeman withstood all heckling, asserted: Our patients were treated by seasoned psychiatrists. Then they came to us. The results are permanent, appropriately, and not temporary. . . . We have not removed the idea by this operation. The idea is still there, but it has no emotional drive. . . . I think we have drawn the string, as it were, of the psychosis or neurosis...