Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Judge William Clark of Newark last week added to the history of Free Speech in Jersey City by ruling, in favor of C.I.O. and the Civil Liberties Union, that Boss Frank Hague must let them move freely about, distribute circulars, display placards, but may still require permits for public addresses and control the composition of mass audiences. Red-hating Boss Hague promptly announced: "Our position is exactly the same...
From the guardian geese around the citadel of classical music there arose last week an anguished honking. An 81-year-old stockbroker named Alfred Lewis Dennis, member of Newark's venerable Bach Choral Society, wrote a long letter, hissing with protest, to FCC Chairman Frank R. McNinch. Its painful burden: the swinging of classical music...
...Michigan, the Detroit Newspaper Guild set another precedent when it bought space in the arch-Republican Free Press for a political ad. ''REPORTERS KNOW!" clarioned the Guild. "We have mingled with men and women in the breadlines . . . witnessed big taxpayers' vain attempts to shirk. . . . Frank Murphy MUST Be Re-Elected!" On its front page the Free Press testily explained it had taken the Guild's money only because it believes in freedom of the press, opined that most Detroit newspapermen "are not led by the nose to the ballot box by John Lewis...
...Williamsburg. Va.. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright told a dumbfounded audience that the only value of the town's restoration by the Rockefellers was to "show us how little we need this type of architecture now." Said he: "What has been done for you, or to you, here in Williamsburg, has advanced our cause of modern, organic architecture greatly, but not in the way it was intended. It shows how narrow, how shallow life was in Colonial days. I have long ceased to take off my hat to our forefathers, seeing what a mess they left...
Practically all of the Crimson touchdowns were set in motion by some sort of Windy City misdemeanor. Harvard first dented the score column, however, without any such add. It was early in the second period, after Austic Harding had relieved Frank Foley at tailback. First Harding just missed confection on a pass to Torb Macdonald; then with Torb on the tossing side, Harding took the business end himself and dove over the line...