Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrested on a trumped-up charge convicted and sent out of the state. Then came the trial of various labor workers for murder, in connection with the many deaths resulting from strikes. The tirade against communism and other radical institutions by the presiding judge, who convicted these men drew the fire of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. When the reporters criticized the judiciary methods the courts were closed to the press. Newton D. Baker at attorney for the paper then brought suit to have the courts reopened, and lost his case. Finally a committee of writers headed by Waldo Frank entered...
Free trade had but one champion in the House that afternoon. Liberal Sir Herbert Samuel broke precedent by speaking against the bill that the Cabinet of which he is a member drew up, but his voice availed...
...performance of Tristan und Isolde last week drew the biggest crowd of any Tristan in the history of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. Contralto Doris Doe, a native of Bar Harbor, Maine, made her debut as Brangane, Isolde's henchwoman. But she was not the magnet. It was Goeta Ljungberg, tall, blonde Swedish soprano who arouses more & more enthusiasm each time she sings (TIME, Feb. 1). Her Isolde last week was not a heroic, leather-lunged creature to be heard over all the brasses. It was vocally uneven. But it was an Isolde deeply personal and finely imagined...
...bill introduced into Congress last week by publicity-loving Representative Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, requiring transport lines to provide parachutes for each & every passenger. Representative Celler's measure, he said, grew out of a bad scare he got while flying over Philadelphia. To back up his proposal, he drew liberally from a provocative article in the February Forum called "Death by Air Transport" by Lloyd S. Graham in which compulsory use of parachutes was demanded. Author Graham, onetime publicity writer for Irving Air Chute Co., made these claims in his article...
...winning a short race. Bill Logan, a Canadian, and Bernt Evenson, star of the Norwegian team which was favored to win most points in the Winter Olympics, cut in behind him.- Evenson streaked into the last straightaway three yards behind but Shea had shaved the last turn closer and drew away to win by 5 yd. In the window of the general store at Hanover, where Shea works his way through college by waiting at an eating club, a placard announced his victory. His time-43.4 sec.-equalled the Olympic record. The 5,000-meter race was run off much...