Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kirkland House Committee announces that Irving Aaronson and his Studebaker Commanders, 15-piece broadcasting orchestra from New York, will be added to the congregation of entertainers at the Kirkland House Spring Dance tomorrow evening. Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club orchestra will hold the spotlight for dancing in the Junior Common Room with the Commanders alternating from the Dining Room. Amplifiers will assure continuous dance music in both halls from 10 o'clock to 3. Admission is $5 a couple and $3 stag...
...unwelcome spotlight of criticism turned on the Student Council last month by Ballantine and Bowditch has born fruit in the new constitution to be submitted to that body tonight. The most encouraging sign of a chastened Council is the abandonment of many glittering and outworn pretensions as shown in the preamble of the new document. Realizing that direct jurisdiction over students was a doctrine as wishful as it was impractical, the framers of the new constitution have settled back to accept a less spectacular but more fitting role. The chief function of the council will be, "to bring before...
...illusion of victory, saying that no matter what the opposition does, it cannot win. If the opposition can be thus persuaded to lie down and die, so much the better for the Democratic, party. But while the leading candidates are bickering over the nomination, Mr. Hoover has kept the spotlight on the real problem of showing up the basic fallacies of the New Deal. His recent bursts of oratory have done much to guide the party's policy and to set the Republicans on their feet for a successful campaign...
Though he is making no overt campaign for the Presidency, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in recent weeks has managed to keep himself in the Congressional spotlight with his subtle attacks on the New Deal. Fortnight ago this Michigan Republican finally succeeded in beating efforts to appropriate money for the Florida ship canal (TIME, March 30). Last week he popped up with a modest resolution asking AAA to report the names of all farmers who received more than $10,000 a year in benefit payments...
Disclosure by the Senate of their August idyl quickly brought "the boys" into the spotlight. That night the six Congressmen notified Senator Black: "We divided and paid the expenses in the same manner any group of men maintaining 'bachelor quarters' would do. Any inference that we were guests of Mr. Smith or anyone else is entirely contrary to the facts. . . . Mr. Smith represented to the group that he was interested in conservation and irrigation in the West...