Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the labor sessions-largely devoted to undiluted labor-baiting-were closed to the Press. But reporters were led in to hear a speech by Hartley W. Barclay, the Mill & Factory editor who defied a subpoena from the National Labor Relations Board last fortnight, which he maintained was a violation of the Freedom of the Press. Before Editor Barclay spoke, a list of newspapers and wire services represented was read off to the businessmen because: "No doubt you will want to get these papers and see how they treat our people." After the Barclay speech the reporters were...
...companies play an average of five times a week, frequently to overflow audiences. In Gallipolis, Ohio (pop. 7,100) a ballet drew 1,500 children from all the countryside. In Hartford's (Conn.) Bushnell Memorial Auditorium last year 3,300 children filled every seat to hear an opera...
...need of editing. Most of the important violin concertos by great masters have either been edited by, or written in collaboration with, some eminent violinist. But violinists, generally hard-up for first-rate concertos, greeted the new work with hosannas, as did the 3,200 who turned out to hear Menuhin play...
...ball to benefit the South Central (Negro) district of Chicago's United Charities fortnight hence, 5,000 whites & blacks will gather to hear Negress Ethel...
...hundred gathered to hear him, "Copey" read selections from several authors, including Rudyard Kipling and Robert Benchley...