Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arkansas' Governor Carl Edward Bailey needed to do was to call a primary election which he could almost certainly have won. Instead, last August he chose what then appeared to be the even less risky method of having himself nominated by the State Democratic Committee on the ground that 120 days was not enough time to hold a primary and an election. Last summer, anti-Bailey Democrats, including the late Joe Robinson's faction of the party, held a convention of their own, nominated for Senator their own candidate, Arkansas' Representative John Elvis Miller. Last week...
...appeal the Florida State Supreme Court threw out the convictions on the ground that evidence on a conspiracy count had been admitted after the conspiracy count was dropped. A second trial, this time on charges of second-degree murder, opened in Bartow last fortnight. Following the dictates of the higher court Judge Dewell ruled out all evidence leading up to the time the victims were released at the police station. Thus the prosecution had to build its case on the recollections of the two survivors, Eugene F. Poulnot, head of the Florida Workers' Alliance, and Samuel R. Rogers...
...butt of his pistol. The indictment, he pointed out, mentioned only injuries to "body and limbs." The defense did not bother to present a case. Granting a motion by the defense, Judge Dewell last week directed the completely bewildered six-man jury to return an acquittal on the ground that the State had failed to establish the "actual or constructive presence" of any defendants at the scene of the murder...
...Wallace Wade) but to make his teams equally famed and feared throughout the South. Drilling his men in every play down to the slightest movement of hand or foot, using a metronome to insure proper timing, sometimes rehearsing a play for two months before using it, crouching on the ground with any player to demonstrate exactly what he wants, Coach Wade is today esteemed by his colleagues one of the most patient of football teachers...
...time his Staatliche Bauhaus Weimar moved to Dessau in 1925, its faculty and students were able to collaborate on a set of workshops and dormitories which have become classics of intelligent architecture. The city of Dessau helped support the school. Its students were given a thorough ground-breaking course in the possibilities of all materials employed in building and manufacture, were taught simultaneously by a technician who made them use their hands and a designer who made them use their brains. After three years of training, a chosen few were admitted to the Structural School to work out, in practice...