Word: sittings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nations and World Court, and ever since has been up and about all kinds of peace endeavors at Geneva and The Hague. Until last week Dr. Hudson had been regarded as more likely to continue to write books with the greatest authority on the World Court than to sit on it as a Justice. His election, hailed as democratic, also marked an ebb in the Court's prestige to a level at which bigwig statesmen are not so anxious to sit in judgment at The Hague as they once were...
Though the Preaching Mission declined to sound off in the press, when its members arrived in Birmingham a few days later they showed pleasure at the inclusion on one program of Dr. Channing Tobias, national director of Negro Y. M, C. A. work. Obliged by municipal ordinance to sit in separate sections, Birmingham Negroes gladly attended meetings, shouted "Amen" and "Glory Be!" The No. 1 Missioneer, Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, led off the opening meeting: "Constantly I remind myself that the Romans said, 'these Britons make the most unlovely, thick headed slaves we have here. . . . No good will ever...
...Guthrie McClintic's Hamlet. True to tradition, play-reviewers threw down their programs, rushed to their form books to weigh Mr. Gielgud's worth against every Hamlet from Barrymore, Forbes-Robertson and Irving to Booth and Burbadge. Consensus seemed to be that next month, when the reviewers sit in judgment on Leslie Howard's portrayal of the gloomy Dane, the name of Gielgud will be added to the list of notable comparative Hamlets...
Hudson, fourth American to sit on the bench of the World Court, said yesterday that his appointment would not necessitate his resignation from the Law School. Also he will keep his post on the Permanent Court of Arbitration to which he was appointed by President Roosevelt...
...device to freeze the tenure of office, gives away his whole line of attack as insincere. Instead of allowing the organization to improve, if elected he would be only too glad to thaw out the present incumbents in favor of his own supporters. For such a man to sit on a pedestal as a champion of reform can hardly capture the confidence of the American people, or their voted...