Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Familiar to most U. S. blasphemers is the ballad about the Biblical football game played on Christmas Day in St. Peter's old back yard. Last week before an eminently respectable audience-a father-&-son dinner in Brandywine Methodist Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Del.- Football Coach Harvey John Harmanof the University of Pennsylvania picked a Biblical football team he would have liked to coach. The lineup...
Although details of the settlements which employees voted to accept are not yet available, it is known that beyond a wage increase, the basic demands of Harry Bridges, alien strike leader of the Coast, were not granted. Those demands were, of course, the now familiar request that his particular organization be granted the complete monopoly of furnishing men to the shipping companies. Mr. Bridges is not desirous of having his organization, the Maritime Federation, which includes all grades of seamen from cooks to mates, assume the responsibility for the safety of the passengers and cargoes. He is perfectly willing that...
...head the investigation. Finally, however, the Governor was convinced, and athletic, 33-year-old Lawyer Dewey, whose favorite indoor sport is squash racquets, found himself in a posi-tion to become the biggest racket-squasher in the U. S. Thomas Dewey's handsome, foxy face has grown familiar to New Yorkers, but when it appeared in the newspapers in June 1935 few would have recognized it without a caption. An Owosso, Mich, boy whose grandfather was second cousin to the Admiral, he had grown up in his father's newspaper and print shop, studied at the University...
...pothesis of such "confession gas,"Mr. Lyons mentions that the use of hostages (wives, children or others dear to the prisoners) is an old Soviet custom, and moreover that in Moscow the authorities have now had 20 full years in which to perfect their "third degree methods, familiar enough in all police systems"to "an extreme of refined cruelty...
Last month at Columbus, Ohio, the 150-member House of Delegates of the American Bar Association resolved to take State judiciaries out of politics by doing away with the familiar elective processes (TIME, Jan. 18). Last week the Chicago Bar Association's Board of Managers on Judicial Selection brought to Bar headquarters atop the Burnham Building the Chicago Plan to free the courts of political domination. To put the proposals into operation would require an amendment to the State Constitution. Affected would be Cook County's three inferior courts, which would be changed thus: Each sitting judge would...