Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suits are to be filed against Mayor Hague's officials by C. I. 0. organizers and sympathizers, the C. I. O. places most faith in one filed last week by C. I. O. Counsel Dean Spaulding Frazer of the Newark University Law School in Federal Court on the ground that the plaintiffs -the Civil Liberties Union, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and several C. I. O. unions-were "without adequate remedy in the local court of law." In substance, they asked for a perpetual injunction to restrain Mayor Hague from ignoring the Bill of Rights. At the same time...
Then one afternoon a squadron of 40 Japanese bombers and pursuit planes came thundering upriver, proceeded to dump several tons of explosives upon the city, setting large districts afire. Through it all the Soviet pilots remained morosely on the ground beside their planes. Dispatches recorded "acute Chinese disappointment." Correspondents could get no explanation of the Soviet surliness past Chinese censors...
...street 15 years ago, the name Frank Lloyd Wright meant, if anything, the builder of a hotel in Tokyo which by some engineering magic withstood the great earthquake of 1923. To the U. S. man-in-the-subway, his name was associated with scandalous episodes ground from the inhuman human-interest mill of the tabloid newspapers. A decade ago, when the brand-new International Style in architecture was seriously taken up by U. S. architects, many of them were surprised to discover that Wright had been its forerunner 30 years before, that by great European architects such...
...were too few enthusiasts and too few cold days to make the expense worth while. But the interest this year shows that the weather is the only stumbling block, and so far it, too, has been cooperative. It does not seen as if the cost of flooding a level ground and building boards around it counterbalance the advantages of a rink, even during a fairly warm winter. For there are a great many days each year when there is no skating on the Charles, while a rink would be crowded. Here, if snow were scraped off and rough ice were...
...libraries and laboratories. Mr. Mahoney's Recreation Division is empowered by law to supply workers to private playgrounds with the sanction of the owner. A step in this direction was made last week when the University allowed a worker to superintend the winter sports on the ground around the Observatory. But this was a trifling concession. Since Harvard closed the Divinity School grounds some years ago, the firm of John P. Squire & Co. has far surpassed it in opening lands to local children...