Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the U. S. Senate convened last week, New Hampshire's Republican Tobey asked consent to have Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's recent radio plea for isolated neutrality printed in the Congressional Record. Because Congress had yet to hear Franklin Roosevelt on active neutrality (see p. 11), Senator Tobey had to wait, finally got Charles Lindbergh into the Record two pages ahead of the President...
...Peace Jitters." In far from bucolic Wall Street, meanwhile, war babies stocks sagged heavily as traders, apprehensive of peace proposals Orator Hitler might make at Danzig, did a little quick profit taking, then spun the dials of their radio sets to hear the Führer. "It was a market based on peace jitters," recorded Financial Editor C. Norman Stabler of the New York Herald Tribune. He figured that the day before, "the market lost 32% of the war upswing" because it was feared that A. Hitler might directly propose peace...
...that one finds out about Glenn Miller's orchestra not earlier than two days after it is gone . . . No word ensues from the Southland, traditional hangout for Harvard men. It is to be hoped, however, that they do as well as last year in giving Boston a chance to hear music rather than Ruby Newman . . . At this writing, the Little Harlem, colored dine and dance spot right near the Raymor-Roseland corner, plans to have Jack Hill again. Hill has the finest small jump combo in town and is very swell for both listening and dancing...
...finding spots in which to hear good jamming or to do a little playing yourself, they just don't exist in Beantown. The number of jam joints in any given locality can always be obtained by squaring the difference between midnight and the liquor curfew. In Boston, the curfew is at one. Occasionally, the Stork Club at City Square in Charlestown will see some after-hours playing, but not as the usual thing. Ardent swing fans had best direct their efforts towards the next election...
Other attractions on the program include an opening speech by Governor Saltonstall '14 and the participation in the conference of several faculty members, Francis T. Spaulding, professor of Education, will chair a session on progress in the wider use of schools for recreation. Nature activities will hear the views of Donald Wyman, horticulturist at Arnold Arboretum. James A. Michener, professor of Education will lead a discussion on "Relation of Recreation to Democracy," while G. Wallace Woodworth '24, instructor in Music will lead the session on music...