Word: counters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Early directing a battery of stenographers who took complete notes of the proceedings in relays, than a serious hitch developed in Showman Roosevelt's plans. Like a stern county magistrate, the President announced that he would take up Chairman Morgan's charges first, the majority directors' counter-charges second, demand all supporting "facts" any of them could give him. He began with Chairman Morgan's most celebrated charge: that there had been collusion between Tennessee's Senator George Berry and the majority directors in agreeing to "conciliate" the Senator's subsequently disproved claims...
...counter-revolution of November 7 which displaced his government was a revolution against the democratic regime and not against the Tsarists or long-time economic abuses, Kerensky says. When Lenin returned to Russia a month after the first revolution he hailed it as the freest country in Europe, a statement which his subsequent actions were to contradict...
Describing Russia after the Bolshevik counter-revolution of 1917 as the first totalitarian state in Europe, Kerensky pointed to the difference between the situation when he was leader of the Leftist opposition to the Tsar, and the present time when all opposition within the party ranks has been stopped...
Lawrence S. Levy '39, who last week headed a student delegation to petition inquiry into counter-charges between the two unions, said last night...
...house. But when the teetering Swedish soprano, Goeta Ljungberg. undertook the role at Manhattan's Metropolitan in 1934, her chiffon-hung shuffling drew titters. Not only was Soprano Ljungberg a dithering dancer, she annoyed the cash customers by starting her dance costumed like a cyclone-swept handkerchief counter, finishing it fully clothed...