Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...betting on the outcome of New York's trial-of-the-year, of Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines as the political fixer of the Numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29, et ante). Mr. Hines was getting no more breaks than ambitious young Republican Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey could help. Highlight of the trial's third week was a detailed account of Defendant Hines's connections with the racket told by nosey State Witness George Weinberg...
Dignitary highlight of the summer was awarding of an honorary LL.D. degree to His Royal Highness, Gustar Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden, by President Conant on July 11. The degree was conferred at a special academic meeting held in the Faculty Room of University Hall at 12 o'clock at which nearly 300 persons were present...
...Dewey insisted that the State had no "star witness," but the highlight of his Wigwam party was expected to be Witness Dixie Davis, chief counsel for the racket. To squelch insinuations that Lawyer Davis had been blandished into turning State's evidence by permits to leave jail and visit his red-headed friend, Showgirl Hope Dare. District Attorney Dewey declared: "He got a change of clothes. . . . He had his clothes there. . . . There were two detectives and the mother of Miss Dare present, so that anybody who has been reveling in ideas that the District Attorney was conniving at adultery...
...chairman, youth ran its own show in grownup style. From a big pressroom a dozen telegraph tickers sent correspondents' reports to the world press. At plenary sessions delegates had earphones (such as the League of Nations uses) through which they heard English, French or Spanish translations of speeches. Highlight: India's Yusuf Meherally shrilling: "181 years of British rule have reduced India to appalling poverty, mass illiteracy, malnutrition and disease...
...annual dinner and session in Dunster House Friday evening should provide the highlight of the sessions. With John M. Whittier, president of the Business alumni in the chair, speakers include President Conant, Dean Donham, and Hanes...