Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-trust laws the speaker said that "despite frequent prophecies of their death, these laws are not only alive but show signs of renewed vitality." Reviewing the history of the oil industry, he declared that the Sherman Anti-trust Law has eliminated rough-and-tumble methods and hitting below the belt, and prevented an outright monopoly of gasoline, but it "has not altered the desire of business men to combine; nor has it enabled you and me to get our gasoline at the lowest possible prices." On the arrival of NRA, "the voice of the consumer was drowned...
Hart and Curtiss, frequent letter writers on political subjects, asked the Student Council to make a "prompt and complete probe" of the matter and render an official report. They base their claim that the money was "collected under false pretenses" upon a news dispatch printed in the New York "Herald-Tribune" of August which reported a parade and demonstration of trade unionists and radicals thru New York's Yorktown and Harlem districts, in which Governor Elmer A. Benson, Farm Laborite of Minnesota, made a speech favoring Mayor La Guardia's re-election...
...widened by Mr. Lewis when he demanded that the Administration chastise the Southern Democrats who were scuttling the Wages & Hours Bill. For the past two months the stories about an imminent break have been inspired by none other than John L. Lewis. Meantime William Green has been a more frequent and conspicuous White House caller-a fact which has not helped the C. I. O. organizers in the field. And then came last week's meeting...
Others of us who were here will also profit. Though the news releases were frequent and to the point, there was so much that a great many students had no more than the vaguest idea of what it was all about. Now, if they never knew before, they may now. Mr. Greene's book is 100% complete and clear. All the events are recorded. During the actual three days all the more important speeches are reproduced. Contained are lists of delegates, accounts of exhibits, messages, personnel...
...Congress to Nurnberg's annual command performance of his favorite opera, a five-hour unabridged performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, heard his favorite tenor, soulful-looking Eyvind Lahome (nè plain Victor Johnson of Birmingham, Ala.). Despite Der Fuhrer's frequent blasts against the U. S. in general, Herr Hitler applauds U. S. Citizen Lahome in particular as the ideal interpreter of Walther the Wagnerian knight, has awarded him the rare State title of Kammersänger. Freely Der Führer admitted last week that a dozen rasping speeches, plus hours standing with right...