Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarly Chairman Arthur E. Morgan to determine the value of the claims. Before they had progressed very far it was apparent that it looked to TVA attorneys as if the leases had been signed less for their mineral than for their litigation value. They announced their intention to show that Agent Ford had sold his one-quarter interest in the $3,000,000,000 leases to a Frankfort, Ky. racing stable owner named George Collins...
...aristocratssal suffrage; to vote man for man as equals; to elect not merely little men to vote for bigger men, but to choose directly their own representatives to the new Russian 1,143-member parliament, the Verkovnyi Soviet or Supreme Council; to vote not in public by a show of hands, but in private in a red-curtained booth, by secret ballot according to their own convictions...
Beginning last October, the process ot nomination commenced all over Russia at open meetings, with the nominating vote by show of hands in the presence of local Communist officials. These officials the Soviet press exhorted to "see that the right people are chosen." Moscow observers noted not only that 712 of 1,143 constituencies nominated Stalin for Parliament but most of them also went on to nominate as their candidates for parliament the Dictator's eleven most favored colleagues. From Leningrad to Vladivostok, from Samarkand to the Polar Cap this list of favorite candidates was repeated, in many cases...
...occasional slips of the new electoral machinery as when, in Simferopol, one of the polling places designated was a house torn down some months ago; in Rostov-on-Don where a polling booth was placed inside a cinema so that it was necessary to buy a ticket to the show in order to vote...
Meanwhile, in Manhattan one of the most remarkable of these contemporary horsey artists was having a one-man show at the Walker Galleries. A lanky man of 42 with a boyish, weathered face, bristling grey hair and swinging limp, Artist Lee Townsend is probably the only professional horse trainer in the U. S. who is also a professional painter. His race-track pictures are consequently as authentic in their day as Ben Marshall's pictures of small-headed, satiny thoroughbreds, gaitered grooms and upright jockeys were...