Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roared skyward with such intense heat that Orator Burckel was nearly scorched upon his rostrum and perspiration poured down his beet-red face, he shouted that Nazis will never again be locked up at Wöllersdorf. In Vienna there were rumors in responsible quarters that former Vice Chancellor Major Emil Fey did not recently commit suicide, but was called upon by Storm Troops who threatened to take his life unless he signed a confession that it was he who killed the late Chancellor Dollfuss, not the Nazi Planetta who is presently to be canonized as a "Nazi Martyr...
...Maier is a Fundamentalist, gets his fan mail from Bible readers. Last week, in a broadcast sermon at a Lutheran Rally in Manhattan, he lit into an organization which many of his fellow Fundamentalists view with alarm-the Federal Council of Churches. Denouncing it as "one of the major menaces to conservative and Biblical Christianity in this country," Lutheran Maier declared that the Federal Council maintains a radio monopoly in the U. S., which he proposes to take up with the Federal Communications Commission. As documentation. Dr. Maier quoted a statement made by the Council's general secretary...
...years ago psychologists strenuously quarreled over John B. Watson's theories of behaviorism, now largely forgotten. Another uproar sprang from the importation from Germany of "dynamic patterns of behavior" (Gestalt psychology). An endless dispute goes on over the value and significance of I. Q. tests. At present a major trouble focus is the research carried on at Duke University by Joseph Banks Rhine, by which Dr. Rhine claims to have proved the existence of "ESP'' (extrasensory perception). Dr. Rhine-some of whose admirers have compared him to Abraham Lincoln, and others to Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin...
...amateur hours make a gong-walloping hurrah about discovering unknown genius. But the records show that they very seldom turn up an artist who can get to first base. In the four years of its existence, the most famed of U. S. amateur hours, that of pudgy, beak-nosed Major Bowes, has not yet unearthed a singer of first-rate concert or opera calibre...
...When 30 high officers and 16 major oil firms were convicted in Madison, Wis. last January of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Federal Judge Patrick Thomas Stone withheld sentence pending motions for a new trial. Last week, he listened to an argument that the jury's verdict should be set aside because the jurors deliberated the complex case only seven hours, which was not enough time to give each defendant the individual consideration specifically ordered by Judge Stone. Meanwhile, in Washington, a Senate committee, studying a bill to require separation of marketing petroleum from producing, refining and transporting...