Word: smith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week, in the caucus room of the Old House Office Building, there opened a Congressional investigation as suave, sophisticated, polite and cynical as a Somerset Maugham comedy. It was the beginning of the Smith Committee hearings of the Wagner Act-that most crucial piece of New Deal legislation, passed to safeguard labor's historic right to bargain collectively through unions of its own choosing...
Last July Congress authorized the Smith Committee to investigate the Wagner Act, to find out whether the Labor Board had been fair, to see what amendments, if any, were needed, and gave it $50,000 as a starter. To tall, solemn, silent Representative Howard Smith of Broad Run, Va., who has hated the New Deal ever since it tried to purge him last year, it gave the delicate job of chairman. With wealthy Lawyer Edmund Toland and 22 attorneys assisting (called brilliant legal lights by the Right, called tools of reaction by the Left), it checked on the work...
...from the accused-a breathless drama of pure Americanism versus nobody quite knew what, packed with sordid procedures, damnable outrages, cries of "Unhand-me-Martin-Dies!" from radicals, and "Let that poor girl go!" from liberals-and all galloping over the cliff at the end of each installment. The Smith Committee hearings were drawing-room comedy...
Another Thin Man (Myrna Loy, William Powell, C. Aubrey Smith, Sheldon Leonard, Asta; TIME...
...BASKETBALL HIGH SCORERS Name, House Goals Lubschansky Dunster 32 Stewart, Leverett 31 Burt, Eliot 25 Smith, Kirkland 19 Cordingley, Leverett 16 Foster, Kirkland 16 Jackson, Adams 16 Macgowan, Adams 16 McGinniss, Dunster 16 Ezell, Kirkland 15 Tonkonow, Lowell 15 Keith, Leverett 14 Eisenstein, Lowell 14 Lyford, Lowell...