Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philip Nolan, built around him a story of treason and punishment so detailed that it sounded true. In the story Nolan is arrested for plotting with Aaron Burr to found a kingdom in the Southwest. At his trial he exclaims, "Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!", is therefor sentenced to perpetual imprisonment at sea with no word from home. Like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Hale's short story continued to be read long after its immediate purpose was forgotten. More than half a million copies were printed...
...uncounted millions of U. S. school children, uncounted thousands of classroom radios were tuned-in in four time zones one day last week to hear what bustling Commissioner John Ward Studebaker of the U. S. Office of Education had arranged as an "ideal commencement program." National Broadcasting contributed a network of some 50 stations. Purpose of this giant mass commencement was not to award diplomas but to hear four commencement speakers of a calibre that rural school boards could not hope to match. Commissioner Studebaker and Secretary of the Interior Ickes were piped through from Washington; Columbia University...
...Universal's convention this week, most ballyhooed productions will be two Buddy de Sylva musicals like Top of the Town, three Deanna Durbin musicals like Three Smart Girls. Salesmen will hear about a general trend to light, unsophisticated entertainment with lots of action, to which the only noteworthy exception on the Universal menu is the late Luigi Pirandello's Yesterday's Kisses...
...asking veto of the measure. Joining in the protest barrage last week were the West Coast's two Governors Martin (Charles of Oregon. Clarence of Washington). At week's end California's Merriam still had the bill on his desk, called a conference of objectors to hear their views...
...spite of one who declaimed: "If they gave me hell and Texas, I'd rent out Texas and live in hell." Oklahoma was one long dust storm. He felt he could not improve on the seventh-grade essayist who wrote: "Dust, that terrible word dust, when we hear the word our mind turns to thinking of coughing, choking particles that come from somewhere to make our days unpleasant. . . . One thing we can be proud of United States dust storms are the latest thing...