Word: standings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, still waiting to stand trial, Mayor Flynn and the city commissioners stood for reelection. All but one commissioner...
Ireland's own Catholic bishops have taken no official stand on the I.R.A. While deploring its anti-British tactics, they, like other Irishmen, publicly approve its ideal of a free, united Ireland. The bishops' position in Eire is so satisfactory, however, that many of them would gladly let well enough alone, despite the plight of the unhappy Catholic minority in Northern Ireland. The most ardent partisans of Irish rebellion are to be found in the U. S., where a great many of the Catholic clergy are of Irish origin. In Manhattan last month, I.R.A. clubs joined other Irish...
Last week the Times's, lawyers put the men who run the paper on the stand. Managing Editor James testified that the memorandum was "a joke" and the word "spies" referred only to "voluntary informants." Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, general manager of the Times, said that the paper had once had an espionage system but has eliminated it. Publisher Sulzberger admitted the Times had kept close watch on some of its employes, defended the practice as an effort "to avoid raising issues with the Guild." While he was on the stand Publisher Sulzberger took the opportunity of declaring himself...
...most Bostonians, Massachusetts' legal holiday on April 19 is better known as the day of The Marathon than the anniversary of the first battle of the Revolutionary War. For parents who have to stand on a curbstone for hours so that their saucer-eyed brood may catch a glimpse of the first gaunt & gasping runner plodding along Commonwealth Avenue, and for motorists who are forced to detour all around town, the Marathon is a notorious nuisance. But for chronic gawps, students of foot racing and officials of the Boston Athletic Association (who sponsor the run), it is a great...
...water free from the city but is metering its tenants. Concessionaires' cash registers are rented from the fair. Many are the sharp but legal practices. The usual forms of building graft were supposedly prevented by strict competitive bidding for contracts. But it is quite possible some insiders stand to profit handsomely from the real-estate boom in Flushing that is sure to come. In any case, there is likely to be little muckraking before the fair is over: the City itself has too big a stake...