Word: elicitation
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Last week Mr. Coolidge wrote Mr. Tebbetts a letter of apology, assuring him "no personal offense was intended." His attorney, Everett Sanders, sent Mr. Tebbetts a check for $2,500 to cover legal expenses, and the case was dropped. Newshawks. marveling at this turn of events, could elicit from Attorney Sanders, Agent Tebbetts and Mr. Coolidge no explanation of the check, could only conclude that Mr, Coolidge deemed it worth $2,500 to escape the publicity of a trial. Gloating grimly, Mr. Tebbetts prepared to sue big New York Life of which Mr. Coolidge is a director...
...would be detrimental to the administration of the law to allow questions to jurors as to racial or religious prejudices. We think it would be far more injurious to permit it to be thought that persons entertaining disqualifying prejudice were allowed to serve as jurors and inquiries designed to elicit the fact of this disqualification were barred. No surer way could be devised to bring the processes of justice into disrepute. . . . Despite the privileges accorded to the Negro, we do not think it can be said that the possibility of such prejudice is so remote as to justify the risk...
...reorganizing and jacking up the Federal Power Commission. All power witnesses before it are suspected at the outset and the inquisitorial questions of such Senators as Nebraska's Howell, Iowa's Brookhart, Washington's Dill, Montana's Wheeler, New York's Wagner and Kentucky's Barkley seem designed to elicit testimony to discredit the present system of utility regulation. Despite the fact that service with a power company might well constitute good training for a power regulator, no such connection ever seems too small or old or indirect for the Couzens committee to dig up and magnify into a sinister...
...combined talent of six despairing Boston newspaper men, aided by a CRIMSON reporter, failed to derail the philosophical train of Jiddu Krishnamurti's thought and elicit from him much specific comment on the troubled land of his birth. In his suite at the Ritz-Carlton the well-known spiritual teacher and Y. Prasad, his Indian aide, tallsed freely and in perfect English of the characteristics of the ideal man of the future, but felt that there was not sufficient evidence at hand on which to base a comment on the Russian religious situation, and expressed more concern for the spiritual...
...This shenanigan about a Jewish plumber who invents a machine which will fulfill all the impersonal obligations of a housewife, has an expert Kosher trio in Joe Smith, Charles Dale and Alexander Carr (who used to play Perlmutter to Barney Bernard's Potash). Such guffaws do they elicit that cautious critics murmurously compare the play to Abie's Irish Rose...