Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the United Mine Workers demonstration looming over the week end, Governor Earle had asked Bethlehem's President Grace to close down the Cambria Works in the interest of domestic tranquillity. Mr. Grace refused on the ground that "to close the plant would involve the admission on our part that the forces of law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are powerless to protect our men in the exercise of their right to work. We cannot assume the grave responsibility of making such an admission." If the plant had to be closed, said Steelman Grace...
Even before Senator La Follette grabbed the frightful film, Paramount had decided not to release it on the ground that such an unrelieved record of blood and brutality was liable to touch off more riots. Said Paramount News Editor A. J. Richard in reply to a Civil Liberties body which challenged the suppression: ". . . Please remember that whereas newspapers reach individuals in the home, we show to a public gathered in groups averaging 1,000 or more and therefore subject to crowd hysteria when assembled in the theatre." One man who saw the film explained: "It made me want...
...golf club with a drill in the top of the shaft for boring a hole in which to insert a wooden tee when the ground is hard...
...great reach of the Pacific, touching almost no land (TIME, June 14). It was unfortunate that this celestial performance, which had a maximum totality duration unequaled in more than 1,200 years, should confine its watchers to three small, makeshift observation areas, only two of which were on solid ground. But none of these areas had bad weather...
...still true that four years within Harvard's walls is as promising a training for work and play in the American civilization as can be found. Especially at times of shifting values, when many things which a few years ago looked safe for generations are crumbling to the ground, and when new ideals and ideologies are taking root in masses of people it is valuable to have the experience in learning to think and to meet new problems which, more than any other one thing, four years at Harvard are able to give. For although at the end of undergraduate...