Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gray of the Union Pacific R. R. and Harriette Flora Gray, the Golden Rule Foundation's Mother-of-the-Year for 1937 (TIME. May 3, 1937). Perennial president of his Princeton class (1923), as famed in college for his unobtrusive Christianity as for his athletic ability (varsity football end), this model son of model parents is recognized by the Doctors Mayo as their crack stomach surgeon. Because Son James Roosevelt's stomach ulcer failed to respond to rest and diet last summer (TIME, Aug. 22) he returned to the clinic last week. "Howdie" Gray was named to operate...
...Roosevelt control is tightened by the elections, first, there will be an open Administration drive to put through the anti-lynching bill. This will be followed by legislation, now being carefully thought out, to put an end to the disfranchisement of the Negroes in the South. . . . That is the dream. . . . If they win, they are going after those five million voting fish in that untouched Southern reservoir with a legislative net guaranteed to catch them...
...Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Attorney Stryker argued that the prosecutor's remark had nothing to do with the trial at hand, was deliberately prejudicial to his client. Prosecutor Dewey insisted that the question was proper and justified. Justice Pecora, with face sterner than ever, recessed court for the week-end to decide...
...days Justice Pecora pondered, then convened his court, announced he would hand down his decision. With the courtroom locked, he read in a firm, dry voice a flat and lawyerlike end to one of the most sensational cases in New York jurisprudence. Because Defendant Hines was charged only with conspiracy to "contrive a lottery," said he, the question about the poultry racket was improper and prejudicial, the request for a mistrial was granted...
...week's end, N. A. B. President Neville Miller branded the report "orphan, unauthorized and misleading." With a fine disregard of Predecessor Ethridge's words, President Miller declared: "All shades of public opinion have freely attested to the fairness of American radio in its handling of news, political candidates, and controversial issues...