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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affords students who can face a group of persons without embarrassment, and present information that is clearly thought out as it is sure in presentation. It may be a student of Fine Arts addressing a group of committeemen who are planning a museum. It may be a physician explain- ing a recent case to a small audience of fellow doctors...
...these criminal lawyers belong to bar associations. Nevertheless bar association members often become, for other reasons, the crook-defenders' allies in fighting major changes of the criminal code. Where the criminal lawyer is thinking of his bread & butter, his more respectable and conservative colleague is think- ing of the Constitution. Last week the American Bar Association's 56th annual convention at Grand Rapids was thrown into a professional turmoil by a U. S. Assistant Attorney General who bluntly proposed that constitutional guarantees be suspended, all local police be federalized and all technicalities be dropped in a national...
...store. He patiently asked for wrapping paper. The clerk jeered, "Afraid you'll get your hands soiled?" The stranger asked, "Where is the manager?" The clerk handed him a piece of newspaper to wrap his handful, told him the manager was "upstairs somewhere." Upstairs he went, gingerly hold- ing his handful. Clerks sent him from department to department for more than an hour, finally told him the manager was out. The patient man suddenly looked angry, his cold eyes turned colder. Dropping his humility, he barked, "I want the manager of Store 134 and I want him quickly...
...speech agreeing that the dry dock was a good thing. The Lord Bishop of Winchester invoked a blessing. Somebody handed Queen 'Mary a silver chalice in which were mixed several kinds of Empire wines. She spilled the mixed wines over the side, watched them spread oilily among float ing cables of flowers. Southamptonites cheered themselves hysterical. The royal family climbed briskly back into the Victoria & Albert, steamed down Southampton Water toward Cowes...
...shaft broken, foundering near a reef. This time Terry behaves like a hero. He crawls into the fire box of the Narcissus to repair the boiler so that the tug can pull the Glacier Queen out of danger. The film ends with Terry recovering from his burns and wear ing a medal. The steamship company has bought back the Narcissus for Annie and she is reconciled with...