Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Teachers College's Dean William F. Russell said: "Lincoln School celebrates 20 years of service. May it have many score more." But last fall, soon after Dean Russell ended another T. C. experiment, New College (TIME, Nov. 28), Lincoln's teachers and parents began to hear reports of a plan to liquidate their institution. Reason: T. C.'s Horace Mann School,* a demonstration school less progressive than Lincoln, had been running large deficits (now aggregating some $240,000) because of Lincoln's competition. A T. C. committee headed by Provost Milton Del Manzo...
...Roosevelt . . , whom we all respect and admire, as 'long-legged.' I am ashamed of you."-ED.] amazes me! I'm a sincere admirer of our admirable First Lady, who is exactly my height. I've always been vain of my long legs, pleased & flattered to hear them so referred...
That rumor last week led a reporter to seek out Janizary Corcoran. Found in Washington's Powhatan Hotel restaurant devouring a filet mignon, Tommy the Cork said he had not seen Mayor LaGuardia in six months. "Must be somebody else," said he between bites. "I hear there's another Tom Corcoran...
...function of that day was a convocation of Parliament to hear the Royal assent to a series of bills (a U. S.-Canada trade agreement, a wheat subsidy, the Dominion budget), something brand-new to Canada and a prerogative of the King-Emperor almost forgotten in England. At each the King nodded, and the deputy clerk droned "His Majesty doth assent." But as a warning that no individual may supersede Parliament, Ottawa's seven old men of the Supreme Court filed into the Senate chamber and plumped down on a big circular woolsack, from which they could symbolically keep...
...them Soviets of the twelve national districts, nine "autonomous regions," 22 "autonomous republics" and eleven "constituent republics" into which the country is divided, all nominated and elected in the same way. On top of the whole heap is the Supreme Council of two houses. To Moscow last week to hear Dictator Stalin there came...