Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When he sat before the cameras on Capitol Hill (TIME. Feb. 14 et seq.),False Witness Harvey Matusow appeared to enjoy his role. He babbled about his stringless Yo-Yo. eagerly called himself a liar, and caused consternation among Congressmen, who thought he should be jailed for perjury. The legal problem: Could the Government, in prosecution for perjury, clearly establish specific Matusow lies, as distinguished from his occasional truths? Last week, for Harvey Matusow, both the scene and the situation changed...
...Work or Starve!" Meany's duties in Albany occupied him just three days a week while the legislature sat. Meanwhile, he found plenty to worry about downstate. The Depression was in full tide, and in the summer of 1935 the New Deal came to the rescue with the WPA. The wages WPA offered to the unemployed were less than the prevailing union scales for building-trades members. Said Meany: "We are not attempting to dictate how the Federal Government shall handle relief. We are merely endeavoring to uphold the prevailing wage law for which we had to fight...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2pm ABC). Tristan and Isolde, with Harshaw, Theborn, Svanholm, Hines...
Conversation (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). "The Nonconforming American," discussed by Adlai Stevenson, Alistair Cooke, Bergen Evans, Clifton Fadiman...
...pilots, recruited from among company veterans, had to retrain and catch up with ten missing years of flight development in Britain, the U.S., and Holland; the peace treaty prohibits flight training in Germany. Recently Lufthansa hired ten pilots from British European Airways as instructors. Mostly, they sat by in the Convair cockpits while the retread German pilots did the test flying...