Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Program is to be embodied this week in a master resolution and in U. S. Communists' first generally published constitution. Both were drafted by the National (formerly Central) Committee and the Polbureau, were then O.K.'d by State conventions. Chief object of both documents is to put down in black and white the Reds' assurance that they mean well by all good Democrats, harm to none. Constitutional excerpts...
Another Austria? Nevertheless, there were alarming indications last week that Chancellor Hitler might decide to duplicate his Austrian coup. Der Angriff reminiscently declared that the Czech government of President Eduard Benes was "no longer master of the situation." This almost directly paralleled the technique that prefaced the occupation of Austria, when Austrian Nazi Chief Seyss-Inquart "invited" the German army to take control because Austria "was no longer master" of its own situation...
With Mercury Theatre Actor Hiram Sherman as jovial master of ceremonies, TAC includes...
...Information Please is an inversion of the current question game and spelling bee vogue. It lets the audience ask the questions. Master of ceremonies is Book Critic Clifton Fadiman, who assembles a board of masterminds for the answering. Masterminds include Franklin Pierce Adams ("F.P.A."), Paul de Kruif, Stuart Chase. Listeners supply questions at $2 per question used, $5 per question not correctly answered. Twenty-four hours after the first broadcast last week the audience had submitted 800 questions...
Keynote of the evening was approval of the House plan, already approved by all House Committees and all but one Master. Guest speakers were Rodman W. Paul '36, Assistant Dean, Paul Reardon '32, Richard H. Sullivan '39, newly elected president of the Student Council, and Irving Murray...