Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt of Mr. Ford's post-visit attitude toward the New Deal remained, he would have removed it by his subsequent performances in New York. This, too, was a rare occasion for him. Not since 1932, when he boomed Herbert Hoover for reelection, had Henry Ford delivered a formal address, and he was in New York to address the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Beforehand, he again yielded to clamorous newsmen and received them in a private dining room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel...
...observer got from the animadversions at Madison was that they were characterized by a refreshing and appealing amateurism. To this sort of audience, Governor La Follette's five-point manifesto and 9,000-word speech, apparently a family collaboration, failed to present even a pretense of a formal body of policy for progressives or anyone else to unite on. But they indicated a thorough awareness that "for ten years the Republicans and Democrats have been fumbling the ball," that the rest of the world was even worse off, and gave evidence that if Phil La Follette could not come...
...first time in its history, Harvard yesterday submitted its labor difficulties to government regulation as University officials conferred with A.F. of L. and inside union delegates at a formal hearing before the State Labor Relations Commission...
...Shaw's and Claude Hopkins' orchestras have been hired for the only formal Freshman dance in the college year. There will be continuous dancing from nine until three. The Jubilee Committee has not planned any intermissions, but for those couples that insist on dancing all evening there will be ample refreshments to cool them...
...perhaps unfortunate that the organizations represented in the Peace Committee chose for Harvard's first formal and authorized peace demonstration an hour which coincides with a much more dubious movement throughout the nation. But the aims of the Peace Committee have been too plainly expressed to permit confusion...