Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently Chicago's first mixed jury in Federal court-six men, six women, five of them members of the League of Women Voters-sat to hear a suit over a will of Attorney Samuel J. Howe, which cut off his son and left his $70,000 estate to Northwestern University. Son Willard C. Howe contested...
...committee said that it will continue to circulate the petition over the week-end. "In signing this petition," the appeal reads, "we do not signify our approval of Mr. Browder's point of view, but affirm the right of Harvard students to hear...
Through Mr. Jerome D. Greene, Secretary of the Corporation, the Administration of Harvard University has denied the John Reed Society its right of hearing a speaker of its own choice. The John Reed Society invited Mr. Earl Browder to speak at Harvard on "The World Crisis," because it felt that the students and faculty of the University wanted to hear all sides of this important topic. Mr. Browder is the most authoritative representative of a legitimate point of view on this issue. When Mr. Browder was indicted on a technical passport charge, Mr. Greene suggested that the meeting be abandoned...
This country is in grave danger of being involved in the European war. The mounting hysteria has already increased the danger of involvement and has threatened to eclipse the fundamental civil liberties of the American people. In refusing us our right to hear a speaker of our choice, the Administration can only contribute to this undemocratic hysteria. In taking such a step the Administration can only align itself with those who, according to a recent Crimson editorial, "are trying to build for the United States a super-highway straight to Armageddon...
Japan, Victorian England, and Harlem is a wild combination in any man's way of thinking. But such a combination conceived by Messrs. Todd, Short, and Robinson, and put on as "The Hot Mikado" is an all-time high in sacrilegious lunacy. Gilbert and Sullivan worshippers would probably rather hear a Goodman rendition of Beethoven's Ninth than their beloved "Mikado" slapped into the groove by a lot of Darktown strutters. But like so many iconoclasts, Michael Todd seems to be getting away with his Great Idea and packing the houses as royally as any D'Oyly Carte company ever...