Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops but a group of muscular policemen who go about the city discouraging radical agitation. Last week the Red Squad permitted William Zebulon Foster, Communist candidate for President of the U. S., to utter the first eleven words of a campaign speech to 1,000 partisans assembled on the Plaza. Week prior the police had broken up a Communist meeting, shot one Comrade...
...turned its attention to the less friendly Senate. From their Anacostia camp tattered jobless veterans marched by thousands to the Capitol. They packed into the Senate galleries. They flopped down in corridors to nap. They swarmed over the wide Capitol steps. They sprawled on the grass. They packed the plaza. They sang and joked. By dusk there were close to 10,000 of them in & around the Capitol. Shortly after 8 p. m. their comrades in the Senate Chamber flashed out the news?...
When Conductor Leopold Stokowski made this statement five weeks ago, most people were inclined to discount it as Stokowski-talk. But last week Stokowski made good his word. He assembled 200 jobless musicians in Reyburn Plaza opposite Philadelphia's City Hall. A sharp wind was blowing across the open square. Some of the musicians sat huddled in overcoats. But Stokowski, by the time the concert was under way, had shed even his jacket, stood conducting in his shirtsleeves...
...proceeds from the Military and Naval Science Ball held at the Copley-Plaza Hotel last March, which amounted to approximately $75, are being donated to Phillips Brooks House by W. P. Elwell '32 and LeB. S. Willard '32, chairman and treasurer, respectively, of the dance committee...
Manley O. Hudson, Bemis Professor of International Law at the Harvard Law School, will preside at the annual luncheon of the Foreign Policy Association, which will be held at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Saturday afternoon...