Word: obtainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eager are the trial-goers that many stand in line all night to obtain small pink tickets good for one day only. Every syllable of the grim proceedings flashes over all the Russias by radio broadcast. Cinema cameras whir at intervals. Flashlight powders occasionally blaze and boom. Fifty Russian and Asiatic correspondents keep 28 telegraph lines busy. Delegations of spectators pour in, daily, from provincial Soviets, plump down on especially reserved benches and marvel at their surroundings...
Today's issue of the CRIMSON is the last of the college year. Subscribers may obtain copies at the Crimson Building, 14 Plympton Street...
...telephone is far greater than that involved in tampering with the mails. . . . Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the Government by means more effective than stretching upon the rack to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet...
...porters tried last year to get action by the Interstate Commerce Commission. But the I. C. C. declined to interfere, having no authority to intervene in a wage controversy. The strike order, issued last week, was calculated to obtain action from the U. S. Board of Mediation, which is empowered to decide when an "emergency" exists in the U. S. transportation world and to request the President to appoint an emergency investigating commission. But last week the Board found no "emergency" in the porters' threat, presumably because the Pullman Co. announced that its service would be impaired...
...rest of the week the CRIMSON will be delivered only to subscribers in the Senior dormitories. Other subscribers may obtain their copies by applying at the Crimson Building at 14 Plympton Street...