Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impromptu pressure group felt that if it could persuade Curley to assume a definitely liberal stand it could spike the Republican Liberal guns under Leverett Saltonstall '14, former speaker of the state House of Representatives...
...This impromptu pressure group fools that if it can persuade Curley to take a definite progressive, liberal stand it can spike the Republican Liberal guns under Leverett Saltonstall '14, former speaker of the State House of Representatives...
Dean of the Yale Law School is Charles Clark. Last week his younger brother Samuel was dean of an impromptu law school in Washington to explain to graduate lawyers a major change in corporate bankruptcy laws which goes into effect this week. This first general revision in corporate bankruptcy laws in 40 years was passed by Congress last June. Named for its introducer, Representative Walter Chandler of Memphis, the Chandler Act is actually the baby of the SEC, whose Chairman William O. Douglas was made a commissioner in recognition of a three-year study of corporate bankruptcies. One of Bill...
Tourists long ago discovered Calypso, found it fun to pay a few dollars to have themselves described in an impromptu ballad. For nearly five years, Columbia and Decca have recorded Calypso songs in Trinidad, but U. S. enthusiasts could obtain discs only by hunting for them in New York's Harlem. By last week, with four midtown Manhattan shops (Liberty, Center, Marconi and Symphony) carrying them in stock Calypsos sold well to an eager public...
...washed up ''any conflict or dissension between State and Church"-Mussolini's spokesman Virginio Gayda immediately so declared-they were sadly mistaken. On Sunday the Pope walked alone out of his summer villa at Castel Gandolfo (something he had never done before), delivered a vigorous impromptu address to missionary students summering nearby. Said he: "Beware of exaggerated nationalism as of a real curse. ... It is a real curse of divisions, of strife almost amounting...