Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thence to the office where I met--and we together by underground to Boston and to the State House to hear attacks on the Oath Law. This be the best show I have seen in a long time. Lord, what speeches! The Student Council presents a worthy resolution but its speaker, upon questioning, says he knows nothing about the business! A pretty blot for the record! One law school professor thrills the audience by his wit and arrogance, but it seems to me, any sober judge would say he made a monkey of himself; and did no more good...
What wise man will doubt that the bill is an unnecessary bit of legislation? Yet I have never seen so poor defense of so good a cause ever in my life. Yet I know I did not hear all fifty speakers; and who am I to judge? A merry Vagabond all too little versed in the ways of the world...
...Russian soldiers, their women and children. On two sides were seats. "We spent four hours with the Red Army in the field- that was all," recalls Observer Houghton. "The wounded dragged themselves across your feet, the people were cheering each other on beside you, the relieving troops you could hear coming behind you and sweeping over you, above your head the night sky hung. A racking experience, that...
With Mayor McNair absent, the trustees proceeded to elect, as president of Carnegie Tech, Dean Robert Ernest Doherty of the Yale Engineering School. Howled the Mayor: "I wanted to vote for Dean Wright.* This fellow they've elected -I hear he's a Communist. He's been associated with Steinmetz and they're all Communists...
This time he is a singing fisherman who throws an egg at Tenor Alan Mowbray because he does not like his voice. Hiding from the carabinièri under the terrace of a big house, he hears Gladys Swarthout rehearsing a scene from Romeo & Juliet. Next day when Kiepura is in jail because of the egg. Miss Swarthout brings a composer (Philip Merivale) to hear him sing. The composer inspires so much gratitude in Kiepura by giving him a job that Kiepura later leaves the company when he finds the composer is also in love with Miss Swarthout. The complications...