Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house for the funeral of his wife, Sophie, who had been shot by a deputy sheriff (TIME, Oct. 7). For a mile in either direction the road was black with their automobiles. There was little sobbing in the crowd, much angry muttering. Posted in the yard was a sign which read: THIS IS WHERE PUBLIC SERVICE SENT THEIR COLD-BLOODED KILLERS TO SHOOT INNOCENT CITIZENS WHO SOUGHT TO DEFEND THEIR HOME. In the drab parlor, where John Crempa and his young son and daughter, all arrested last fortnight, sat fiercely brooding, a Roman Catholic priest intoned the service...
Though admitting by implication that the shot-in-the-arm given Britain by cheapening the pound (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931) has at last just begun to wear off, the Chancellor observed: "I must say that up to now there has been exceedingly little sign of a check in our movement toward recovery. . . . Employment . . . is picking up.... Export and retail trades, notes in circulation, bank clearings and bank advances all show substantial increases.... It is only in new capital issues, which were continuously extending up to the end of July, that in August we received a definite check, due doubtless...
...sorts has always been a foremost hobby of educated people. At present there is only one course, Fine Arts 19a, which deals with the methods and possibilities of sung an interest; and that course, primarily for graduates, is called Museum work and Museum Problems. This is another sign that the Department thinks of itself as the procreator of "curators and teachers of the arts," whereas nine tenths of the students are taking their courses for cultural reasons alone...
...three occasions the scorer put the ball away on his first crack at it, an art which until yesterday Coach Carr's men had shown little sign of mastering...
Worthy of great praise is the decisive stand of Professor Mather of Harvard against the enforcement of the stupid and repressive Teachers' Oath Law of Massachusetts. In refusing to sign an oath of allegiance as a teacher he has refused to lay himself at the mercy of all narrow minded chauvinists who might choose to interpret utterances of his as unpatriotic. To suppose that anything particularly subversive or radical might invade the teachings of a professor of geology, which is the position Dr. Mather holds at Harvard, is, to begin with, ridiculous. But it is a matter of some importance...