Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in a libel suit against the Evening Star, Sir Oswald was telling a London jury that he had said no such thing. Nervous, irritable, proud, derisive under cross-questioning by pince-nezed Norman Birkett K. C., the No. 1 British Blackshirt burst out, "We have no machine guns, armored cars or airplanes but, considering our allegiance to the King, we should easily get them if the Government failed to resist a Communist attack." The jury approved Sir Oswald's candor by awarding him $25,000 damages...
...score of 77 brought Robert C. Hunter '36 the qualifying medal, while fifteen other men with cards of 90 or less got into the match play. In the semi-finals, Lynford Lardner, Jr. '36 will play Norman Mendleson '38, and Thomas Boardman '36 will pit himself against Arvin N. Pierce '38. Last year the final match was played in a snowstorm, Alan Pattee, a Freshman, being returned the winner...
...opponent of trying to walk a tightrope on the New Deal; in Michigan. Farmer-Laborite Senator Henrik Shipstead for his third term; in Minnesota. Republican-Democrat-Progressive-Commonwealth Hiram Johnson, over a lone Socialist; in California. Democratic Senator Royal S. Copeland over an "Arrow-collar" Republican and Socialist Norman Thomas; in New York. Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler over Republican George M. Bourquin, a onetime Federal judge who once remarked: "This court may be in error but it is never in doubt''; in Montana. Republican Senator Warren R. Austin over Democrat Fred C. Martin, after a desperate Administration...
...gridiron. They would try to slow down the inevitable naval race, try to keep the Great Pacific War from becoming inevitable. Last week they were doing what they could to avert a break at London. There the U. S. is ably represented by trouble-shooting Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis. But dispatches indicated that per-haps only in Tokyo can the trouble he is after be shot...
...Tennessee Valley Authority is a number of things to a number of people, but to Socialist Norman Thomas it is "the only genuinely socialistic project in the New Deal?a beautiful flower in a garden of weeds." Tenderly cultivated by TVA Director David Eli Lilienthal, the flower budded prettily last summer when Electric Bond & Share agreed, at pistol point, to sell its Knoxville, Tenn. power & light properties to TVA. The pistol was the threat that Knoxville would build its own distributing system with a PWA loan-grant (TIME, July...