Word: hearsay
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...carried to St. Helena, Lord Nelson's dress sword, a pair of Lady Hamilton's earrings. On the wall to the right of Banker Bullock's big desk is the famed copy of the London Times of June 22, 1815, carrying the first four-day-late hearsay story of the Battle of Waterloo. Stuck down at the foot of the page among a jumble of advertisements and personals, the story carries no headline. Significant of the current swing to the middle ground between the management trust of pre-Depression days, when no limitations were set upon...
...Vagabond might reply that he regrets something more desirable even than this: an atmosphere too rare to be reduplicated, an hermitage which was at the same time a focal point for youth and its enthusiasms, something which the Vagabond, though he has known of it too much by hearsay, nevertheless thinks that he understands...
...March First Lieutenant Francis J. Clark, U. S. Infantry, was convicted by court martial at Denver of intoxication, disorderly conduct, criminal assault. He was sentenced to be dismissed from the Army, imprisoned for six years. Reviewing the case as the Army's Commander-in-Chief, President Hoover found much hearsay evidence used to support the assault charge. Last week it was announced that the President had stricken the prison term from Clark's sentence, confirmed his dismissal...
Chairman Cravath quashed all such hearsay tersely. His deep voice has always overwhelmingly convinced his big businessmen clients. A statement from his great & good friend Otto Hermann Kahn who owns from 70 to 80% of the Metropolitan stock was not forthcoming. But financial security seemed to lie in the announcement that a two-year contract had been signed with National Broadcasting Co. Twenty-five operas sent over the air will bring in a revenue of $250,000. The first: Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, Christmas afternoon...
...women," was the first magistrate to be ousted as a result of Samuel Seabury's investigation of Manhattan's inferior courts.* She was convicted on five counts: 1) altering the stenographic record of a case appealed from her court; 2) jailing as a wayward minor on hearsay evidence a girl artist found living with a married man by a Methodist deaconess; 3) ordering special probation reports to support her convictions of prostitutes who had appealed; 4) buying stock in a bail bond concern that did business in her court; 5) exploiting her office for $1,000 from Fleischmann...