Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years of practice which had made Louis Brandeis a national figure as Boston's "People's Lawyer." The somewhat prodigious son of a prosperous Louisville grain merchant who had emigrated from Prague in 1848, Louis Brandeis went to Harvard Law School in 1875, in time to hear, at the house of a professor, a paper on education, read in a quavering old man's voice, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. After his graduation, the firm he started with his Classmate Sam Warren prospered brilliantly. By the time he was married at 34 to Alice Goldmark, whose father...
...Tammany-controlled Board of Aldermen. All could have been dispatched much earlier. At 10:30 rooters demonstrating outside the Mayor's house were informed that the Mayor, his wife, his daughter Jean and son Eric had already gone to bed. A little later theatre crowds were able to hear and cheer the final unofficial figures: LaGuardia, 1,344,016; Mahoney, 889,591. It was the first time Tammany had ever had to bow to Reform twice running. It was the Fusion candidate's first absolute majority...
...revolution," President Cardenas has not been actively thwarted by Mexico's judiciary, Supreme Court Justices even going so far as to promise "cooperation" with the Administration. Last week a Federal district court judge in the capital evidenced the first outright fulfilling of such promises when he refused to hear the initial case challenging the constitutionality of Cardenas' land-division program...
...took this as a sign that his old circulatory troubles had returned. The 80-year-old Pontiff took to his bed. Once more, rumors of a serious relapse went out, the wildest being that papal Dr. Aminta Milani was telling prelates: "I would not be surprised any morning to hear the bells of St. Peter's toll out the sad news...
...policemen, politicians and College biddies are all that undergraduates can think of when they hear a reference to Ireland, they have some excuse for their ignorance. For it is a sad fact that Harvard offers no broad, general course dealing directly with either the history or letters of Erin...