Word: fellow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee dealing with military affairs last week had Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh interrupt his study of U. S. air facilities (TIME, May 8) to tell (in secret session) what he knew about aerial Europe. Witness Lindbergh, in a dark suit, dark tie, turned out to be a nice fellow who had flown German planes, knew they were fast but had not been allowed to use airspeed indicators. The German planes he saw were not so elaborately made as U. S. craft, could not haul bombs across the Atlantic. He told so little (scarelines in newspapers notwithstanding) that one Congressman privately...
...Democrat Pius Schwert of Buffalo introduced in the House a bill echoing one introduced in February by his fellow townsman, New Dealing Senator Mead: to give RFC's Jesse Jones authority to insure bank loans to small business...
Last week five of the six defendants stood convicted of conspiring to intimidate Editor Ewald into silencing his anti-lottery campaign. Sam B. Powe, Mobile's lottery king and ringleader of the plot, was sentenced to seven years in prison, his fellow conspirators to terms ranging from 18 months to five years. Their convictions will be appealed. Solicitor Chamberlain was acquitted, but resigned two days later. What had happened to honest, courageous, but perverted Editor Ewald, no one in Mobile knew...
Missing is its air of fairyland, all but missing its marvelous moon-drenched poetry. But largely missing too are Hermia and Helena and their supporting cast of bores. What remains are the comic ad-ventures of Bottom and his fellow bumpkins, culminating in the uproarious production of Pyramus & Thisbe before the Duke. To many in the first-night audience, Shakespeare seemed almost as good as Billy Rose's Aquacade...
...Beard resigned from Columbia in protest against the dismissal of two fellow professors for opposing U. S. entry into the War (Beard himself supported the War), later joined John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, James Harvey Robinson in founding The New School for Social Research, for four years headed the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. A belligerent champion of civil liberties and academic freedom, Beard was a scorching critic of post-War red-hunting. When, in 1933, Missouri Pacific Railroad went bankrupt, Beard, a small bondholder, heard that the House of Morgan was withholding interest pending a court order. "Preposterous," Beard...