Word: hall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speakers read formal papers in the mornings, in the afternoons the scientists gathered at "round tables" for informal discussion. Some of these sessions grew so heated that they finished in the hall outside the conference room. From the sidelines University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins rather tartly reminded the delegates that in 1929 the world had a much greater sense of social well-being than it has today. Henry Bruere, onetime U. of C. social worker, now president of Manhattan's big Bowery Savings, pointed out that the first time social scientists really got their teeth...
...tellers came into the hall. The news was amazing; it was a hermaphrodite. The Progressives had won strategic posts for four of their seven candidates. Elected were: Dr. Ernst Philip Boas of Columbia, chairman of the Committee on Public Relations; Dr. Bernard Solomon Denzer of Mt. Sinai Hospital, chairman of the Committee on Medical Economics; Drs. Henry Barber Richardson of Cornell and Edward K. Barsky of Beth Israel Hospital, delegates in a group of 13 to the New York State Medical Convention...
...Yale an hour before Mr. Browder was due at Strathcona Hall (capacity: 407) one afternoon last week, police had to close the doors, with nearly 500 inside, sitting, standing and hanging from the windows. By the time Mr. Browder was squeezed in through a side door, 2,500 more undergraduates and townsmen were milling outside, raising ladders to the windows, trying to jimmy the doors. Delighted Comrade Browder, mistaking a lark for an eagle, began by hailing the Bill of Rights (laughter and applause), then launched into a discourse on "America and the Imperialistic...
...Browder emerged from the hall, he was surrounded by cheering and booing students. Enthusiasts began to throw vegetables at his car, and there was an abortive attempt to turn the car over, but cries of "Cut it out!" from cooler heads soon stopped the monkeyshines...
...Niagara Falls. One Texan chartered a plane to get there. Refugees from Central Europe spend their first two cents on U. S. soil to stamp a letter to NBC asking for passes. Bootleg passes retail at $25 a pair. Last week, when Toscanini took his NBC Symphony to Carnegie Hall to play Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, hundreds were turned away...