Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However much or little truth there was in this,* British newspaper readers had scant opportunity to judge or obtain pertinent facts last week, and at the annual meeting of the British Institute of Journalists at Edinburgh their President Hugh W. Dawson read a hot attack on those British forces which he said tend constantly to "restrict the scope of free criticism and give the newspapers pause before they expose a public scandal." Including British law as now administered among these stifling forces, British Journalists' president cried: "There seems to be a tendency in courts of law, particularly...
...sounded and the band will play as a signal for the Alumni to take their seats in the Theatre. Members of the Governing Boards, Faculties, Delegates, and Distinguished Guests will proceed, without formality to seats on the stage. Alumni who wish to bring their families to this meeting may obtain family tickets at Straus Hall beginning at 8 o'clock this morning...
...side door on presentation of Tercentenary Pass. Ticketes may be secured for ladies by applying at the Crimson Building. The dance will be free; light refreshments and beer will be sold in the Delta of Memorial Hall where tables will be available. Members of the Class of 1936 may obtain tickets to this dance at the Crimson Building. INFORMAL DRESS...
...Paris an imposing delegation from the French Metal Workers' Union bearing a petition with 2,000 signatures waited on French Premier Leon Blum, demanding that he send aid to the Spanish Reds. "Whom do you take me for, Messieurs?" retorted Socialist Blum. "My efforts to obtain the neutrality and non-intervention of the powers in Spain have only just borne fruit. Do you suppose I would reverse my policy...
Getting down from Anarchist theory to Anarchist practice, the larger factories and industrial plants of Barcelona had in fact last week resumed production. They were running under councils of workmen and it remained to be seen whether these could continue to obtain raw materials, pay wages and effect profitable sales after the Spanish civil war is over. For the time being, every Barcelona factory capable of being converted to make war materials was running full blast, the Madrid Cabinet buying hand-over-fist everything it could get to arm its militia, paying with gold from the vaults of the Bank...