Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Have you folded? Brace up. You didn't conduct a poll or did you? Let's hear from you when you have TIME again...
...talk of a class war in Great Britain and the British Empire is to talk of a calamity that has not the least chance of befalling us!" was the First Lord's welcome prophecy. "When I hear people speak of Communism and Fascism as if they were the greatest constitutional experiments of our time, I feel how little do these fanatics and theorists understand the magnitude of the experiment of the British Empire...
Musical Jeremiahs have long wailed about high prices which keep music from the plain people, draw only the rich who come not to hear but to be seen. Not less sour is their estimate of the "virtuoso system" which rewards performers for their fine airs or interesting eccentricities, pays scant attention to their musicianship. Last spring bright, aggressive Ira Arthur Hirschmann, vice president of New York's smart Saks Fifth Avenue department store, snapped: "It's about time somebody threw the circuses out of the concert halls...
...Fellows of Harvard College will get $5,000,000 or whether it will be awarded to the two half-uncles and the half-aunt of the late Mrs. Lucius W. Nieman of Milwaukee will probably be presented for decision this week. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin is expected to hear the case of the Nieman bequest, appealed from the Milwaukee County Court, in which the widow of the late Lucius W. Nieman, founder of the "Milwaukee Journal" and crusading journalist of the last half century, left Harvard an estate of approximately five million dollars to "promote and elevate the standards...
...members of the Student Union foregather in Phillips Brooks House at 7:30 o'clock tonight to hear George Edwards, chairman of the American S. U., talk on the work of the national office and aims of united student action on various campuses...