Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington office from delivering to Senator Hugo Black's Lobby Investigating Committee all telegrams sent or received by the potent firm of Winston, Strawn & Shaw. Mr. Hogan's argument was that by subpoenaing wholesale all the telegrams sent or received in Washington between Feb. 1 and Dec. 1, 1935, the Senate Committee had violated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution which guarantees the people security "in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures." After Mr. Hogan, the attorney for Western Union said that his company was only a football in-the fracas, would prefer...
...country squires. M. Flandin knows Mr. Baldwin. He is familiar with the reluctance of the Prime Minister to use the telephone, his refusal to read newspapers on Sunday and his instinctive habit of not feeling strictly bound by promises which British statesmen may make outside the United Kingdom (TIME, Dec. 30). If the Council of the League of Nations should proceed to meet in London, virtually "in Baldwin's lap," not only the Prime Minister but also the John & Jane Bulls he so much resembles might take the Hitler Rupture into their "thinking machines...
With the Strawn action as a lead, newshawks investigated, soon turned up a surprising set of facts. The Black Committee, it developed, had seized the Feb. 1-Dec. 1 telegrams of some 1,000 firms, organizations and individuals. Some of this booty had been obtained by the Committee's own subpoenas, of which it had issued more than 2,000 to Western Union and Postal Telegraph offices throughout the land. Others, it was reported, had been secured for it by the Federal Communications Commission, whose clerks were said to have copied off more than 13,000 messages in Western...
...popular success. She sang the most taxing passages with uncommon skill and ease, acted with a simplicity completely suited to the music. Earlier in the season there were critics who feared for Flagstad's voice, wondered if she were not trying to work it too hard (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week it sounded amazingly fresh, proved without doubt that she is the great singer...
...were complete he died. Grizzled Dr. Francis Gladheim Pease of Mt. Wilson and Fred Pearson, longtime Michelson assistant, carried on. Two years ago they announced that their measurements were showing systematic variations, an astounding situation which raised the question of whether light speed was a constant after all (TIME, Dec...