Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Having obtained confirmation of three controversial characters in highest appointive posts (Frankfurter, Murphy, Hopkins), Franklin Roosevelt last week sent to the Senate a still hotter appointment: Thomas R. Amlie, Wisconsin radical Progressive, to be a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...turn came again, Governor Stark's demand for a Kansas City Dewey was still dangling. Attorney General McKittrick had conferred with Kansas City's Prosecutor W. W. Graves, a tame Pendergast cat, who announced that there was nothing to investigate. Judge Southern suddenly issued search warrants, sent police out raiding...
Speaking at the City Club in Boston, Hicks was displeased because the program had been arranged so that the part on which he was to speak was not broadcast over Station WAAB. After awhile, a radio listener sent in the question which asked which came first, Communism or Fascism, and is freedom of speech allowed under Communism. Ehrmann remarked that since Hicks had not been heard on the air, it would not be necessary to answer the question...
Granville Hicks denied last night having received a challenge which had allegedly been sent to him, asking him to defend his stand as an exponent of Communism in public debate...
...never saw much of George, his third guest, although lie had sent him the first invitation. George was one of those easy-going fellows who could get along with anyone. He always had the radio on when he worked so that he was really listening to the radio and not working...