Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Abject and hoping for clemency, Tilden (technically charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor) listened to the castigation by Superior Court Judge A. A. Scott: "You have been an idol to thousands of youngsters and admired by millions of adults throughout the world." Murmured Big Bill: "I'm very sorry...
Meanwhile the routine early work of both Houses went on. The organization of committees was only partly concluded, but it squeezed plaintive cries from Vito Marcantonio, the rabble-rousing Congressman from Manhattan's upper East Side. As the only minor party member (American Labor Party) left in the House, he seemed in danger of being stranded-each major party voiced deadpan assumptions that the other would take care of seating him on committees. Another left-winger, Florida's Russophile Claude Pepper, was also disenchanted at finding himself eased off the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee-the wages of singing...
...U.S.Soviet relations through the theater. This one badly flops, less because it is built on a formula than because it is built so badly. What is finally thrown together is a hack job of comedy, corn, melodrama and sex that provides a few bright moments by way of some minor characters...
Greenburg, who with his wife owns about 23% of Diana Stores stock, attributes much of the swift rise of the company to his shrewd "good will" campaign. This calls for local store managers to hire local help, join Chambers of Commerce, become minor pillars in their respective communities. Harry Greenburg thought the best way to show his stockholders that his good will was more than skin deep was to turn down his stock options. Said Greenburg: "Money isn't everything in the world. I won't eat any more than I'm eating now if I exercise...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Bach's Ich Ruf zu Dir, Second Brandenburg Concerto, C Minor Passacaglia and Fugue, Come, Sweet Death; Wagner's love music from Tristan und Isolde. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...