Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ In Philadelphia, a young woman carrying a babe in arms handed a grubby $1 bill to Chief Investigator George Dooley of the Registration Commission, announced: "I took a dollar from a man to change my registration to Republican. It's dirty money. I can't keep it...
Customers of hot-weather music have no very intense convictions about what is played to them. This fact is known to every conductor, every musician who plays Beethoven's Fifth Symphony with his eyes shut. In Chicago's Ravinia Park last fortnight, to give the program committee some...
Nearly all prosecution witnesses insisted upon testifying for the defendant. Gist of their stories was that the colonel was a drinker, not a drunkard. At the close of the trial the court itself put Lieut. Smith on the stand and questioned him. His tale was that Colonel Giffin got him...
It is risky for an Asiatic to frustrate sahibs. The Sultan of Johore soon discovered reports were reaching London that he was making an issue of marrying Miss Hill, had engaged in a "serious quarrel" with the Governor of Straits Settlements. Afraid the British Government might crack down, His Highness...
Sample charges: 1) That in acquiring theatre chains the major producers avoided competing in the same territories and since their output is enough to keep all theatres comfortably full, they can and do exchange pictures and actors freely, meanwhile deny such privileges to independents except upon hard terms. 2) That...