Word: goings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Told by newsmen that Columnist Westbrook Pegler had suggested he go back to work, Labor Martyr Tom Mooney brandished a paid-up A. F. of L. Molders Union card, snapped: "During eight years of that hell [22 years in San Quentin Prison] I peeled potatoes. . . . Maybe that writer of scurrilous stuff may classify what he does as work...
...radio, as well as for almost everybody else, the Royal Visit to the States last week was a great event (see p. 15), and radio made a great to-do about it. Newscasters kept for U. S. tuners a here-they-come, there-they-go vigil from the moment the Royal train rolled across the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls last week until Their Majesties left Hyde Park Sunday night for Canada. Radio strove as vigorously as the press for news angles and side slants, but broadcasters generally watched their step more carefully, trod on no regal corns. This...
...Meanwhile 1,500 teachers marched to Board of Education headquarters on Park Avenue. And up & down before the Republican State Committee's offices in 42nd Street marched Charles Hinckley, 5, and Jill Hinckley, 3, leading a procession of 150 school children. Charles carried a sign: "WE WANT TO GO TO KINDERGARTEN." His followers chanted: "Republicans promised to protect our schools...
Each Black Mountain student, with faculty advice, lays out his own course, takes comprehensive examinations when he thinks he is ready to go from the junior to the senior division, where he specializes in one field. To graduate (usually, but not necessarily, after four years), he must pass an examination, given by a professor from another college, in his major field. Although they need not go to classes, most students do. Classes are informal, are often held outdoors. Boys and girls wear shorts or jeans, smoke, call their teachers by their first names...
This June the seventh will go down in history...