Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next Tuesday will be only Washington's Birthday to those Harvard students who will dutifully loaf in honor of the Father of Our Country. But out in Cincinnati, next Tuesday will be lot more than a yearly holiday. For on that date, some thirteen Harvard Clubs will gather there for the first annual meeting of the Regional Harvard Clubs of five middlewestern states...
Outside the Paramount Theatre in Manhattan's Times Square one cold day last week, a crowd of high-school students began to gather at dawn. When the doors opened several hours later, 3,000 rushed in and thousands more stood shivering on the sidewalks, waiting to hear the current musical idols of U. S. Youth-Benny Goodman and his swing band. The audience was jumping and shouting when New York University's Psychology Professor George Benjamin Vetter and the New York World-Telegram's crack Reporter Joseph Mitchell arrived to study the phenomenon. Reporter Mitchell...
...writers, written an autobiography scheduled for publication this spring. Last week in Chicago, the Renaissance Society opened an exhibition of the editorial papers she left to the University of Chicago. Largely made up of matters of historical interest-letters and manuscripts of Robert Frost, James Joyce, Willa Gather, Robinson Jeffers, such items as a letter containing a check to Rupert Brooke for one of his war sonnets, returned marked deceased-the exhibition was notable for its revelation of the number of first-class writers Harriet Monroe had discovered. To U. S. readers Poetry introduced Yeats, Eliot, Ezra Pound, Rupert Brooke...
...hand of Greensboro, Ala., last week's doings in the U. S. Senate were good news. Negro Jones had been arrested, charged with jumping on the running board of a car to kidnap Mrs. Robert Knox Greene, wife of a white planter. When Mrs. Greene's friends began to gather he did not need to be told what familiar, ugly thought they had in mind. At the crucial moment when Sheriff Calvin Hollis was trying to calm the crowd, up stepped Planter Robert Knox Greene himself. How Planter Greene, a cousin of Alabama's Representative Sam Hobbs, persuaded...
Around a dinner table in Manhattan frequently gather some 20 of the ace propagandists in the U. S. This unpublicized, high-powered group calls itself the Council on Public Opinion, chairman is the nation's No. 1 publicist, dark, Machiavellian Edward L. Bernays. Others: General Motors' Public Relations Counsel Paul Willard Garrett, American Iron and Steel Institute's John Wiley Hill, Rockefeller...