Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exercises, open to the public without charge will be held in Sanders Theatre on Tuesday, June 21 at 11 o'clock. This is a change from the custom of recent years to hold them on Friday of Commencement week...
Five distinguished members of the Law School Faculty have been elected to hold historic endowed professorships, it was announced yesterday...
...Angels Camp, Calaveras County, Calif., last week there was a lot of hopping being done. Local businessmen were holding the ninth Annual International Jumping Frog Jubilee. For Calaveras County miners the jubilee, inspired by Mark Twain's fabulous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," is the sports event of the year. On Angels Camp's main street thronged 35,000 spectators, including overdressed cinema celebrities to watch the two-day classic. The rules: 1) three jumps to a frog, the total distance to count as official; 2) each frog might be shaken thoroughly to discover...
Scandalous to U. S. moralists has been the increase, during the past three years, of petty gambling-bingo games and the like-under church auspices (TIME. Dec. 27, et ante). Whether or not they consider gaming sinful in itself, high-minded churchmen hold that the church bemeans herself by acting as croupier. Yet out of more than 200 U. S. Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops-the most articulate shepherds of their flocks-not more than half-a-dozen in each church have spoken out against bingo games. Joining this minority last week. New York's austere Episcopal Bishop William...
...Sharpened its vigil against monopoly in the oil industry. A 1935 law stipulates that no one operator, individual or corporation may hold more than 2,560 acres of oil land in any one petroleum structure or 7,680 acres in any one State. Big companies have dominated more territory than this, however, through prospecting permits and operating contracts with prospectors. Last week Secretary of the Interior Ickes ruled that the companies must include such territory in their list of holdings and (he total must cleave to the law. Object: to keep down overproduction, give wider scope to the small independents...