Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This casting procedure is an effort "to broaden the base" of Eliot House dramatics and train actors for the group's regular productions according to Hancock. The readings, to be held in the Junior Common Room, are the main feature of a three-part program of activities outlined this week by the recently reorganized Drama Group...
During the day the former President held a peppery news conference and delivered a slashing partisan attack on the Republicans at a dinner last night...
Meanwhile, the Democrats, with too many candidates, were having their own problems. Jim Farley and state commerce commissioner Edward Dickinson were eliminated early. Carmine DeSapio, boss of Tammany Hall, supported New York City District Attorney Frank Hogan, while Harriman and Mayor Wagner held out for a "more liberal" man, either former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter or former AEC Commissioner Thomas Murray. In the ensuing power struggle, DeSapio won, with the aid of Buffalo Democratic leader Peter Crotty; Crotty was promptly rewarded with the nomination for Attorney General...
...relation to his action at last year's meeting of Coop members, Thies registered strong objections to a Directors' report stating that "the sale to its members of wines, spirits, and malt beverages" was not feasible. This report held that three state laws make it undesirable "to engage in the sale of alcoholic liquors...
...Thies held that since the Society exists "to reduce the cost of living" at the College, it is certainly feasible for it to sell alcoholic beverages...