Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collect $1,000,000 from Mr. Ford. Last week that suit went before the U. S. District Court in Detroit. It may last five weeks or five months. Mr. Sapiro's underlying purposes are three: 1) to put Henry Ford through a thoroughgoing grilling on the witness stand;* 2) to put an end to his own and his magazine's attacks on Jews; 3) to show the merits of Mr. Sapiro's co-operative marketing of farm products...
...Ford has hired able defense counsel, headed by Senator James A. Reed of Missouri (TIME, March 7), for whose sharp tongue and inquisitorial powers many a lawyer yearns. The defense contends that there is no need of Mr. Ford taking the witness stand or of dragging in the question of race prejudice. Said Mr. Reed: "Neither the principles of co-operative marketing nor the Jewish race is on trial. . , . We are accused of libeling Mr. Sapiro, and it is therefore his work and the plan which he expounded, that we seek to test. We claim that he was selfish...
...what title do the initials K. C. B. stand...
...since you seem so prepossessing Why you sit there keeps me guessing: If sitting bores you, lady--why not stand...
...Yale, high stand men are gradually being given these privileges in the form of release from routine classroom work where the individual can profit from it. Harvard has just announced its policy of cutting down the amount of classroom teaching from the Christmas recess to the Mid-year examinations and of omitting it entirely in many courses for nearly the last month before the final exams. This advanced step at Harvard will be tried out at first only by those departments and divisions whose instructors are favorable to the idea. And it will not be applied to the Freshman Class...