Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose of this hearing or any other NLRB hearing is quite 'different from a lawsuit. We have to let in hearsay evidence and immaterial things so we may get at the material things. The strict rules of evidence are not followed. Only the material facts are considered in the trial examiner's opinion and in the rulings of the Board. The immaterial is rejected. Rulings on objections are entirely within the discretion of the trial examiner. Nobody is injured or harmed by this procedure. We are charged with the duty of conducting the inquiry on a thorough...
...Book. Nervous readers will find The Years not nearly such heavy going as their knowledge or hearsay of Virginia Woolf might lead them to expect. Unlike some of her other books, The Years is not experimental. It is written ''straight." Superficially, it is the telescoped chronicle of a London family-an upper middle-class family, like all Virginia Woolf's principal characters. But the actors are not the first thing seen. The curtain goes up on a scene that is pointedly empty of human beings. Time is to be the real protagonist of the story: "At length...
...Sacred Cause." THE MOONSTONE AND THE WOMAN IN WHITE-Wilkie Collins-Modern Library ($1.10). Reprint, in readable type, of two detective classics; with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott. The first and probably the best, full-length detective novel, The Moonstone has had a U. S. reputation confined mostly to hearsay...
Paramount issue in the argument which involved claims for damages on the grounds that insanity had resulted from the narrow escape of being run down by a truck were the questions of negligence on the part of the driver and the legality of certain hearsay evidence. Lawyers for the defendant delivery company earned their decision by disclaiming the plea of Insanity...
...LIFE OF RICHARD WAGNER, Vol. II: 1848-1860-Ernest Newman-Knopf ($5). Masterly account of the composer's underestimated role in the Revolution of 1849, his chronic professional and domestic wrangling over musical problems, love affairs, debts, odd cures for complicated illnesses. Astute Critic Newman finds more than hearsay behind the story that Wagner's real father was a Jewish actor named Geyer, his mother the illegitimate child of Prince Constantin of Weimar...