Word: stationing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flanagan attempted to steal the election from me," Sullivan said, "only I caught him in the nick of time." Remarking that he found the polling place in the fire station in a "frightful mess," he said, "there is where they would have tried to steal the votes...
...Aloe Plaza, outside St. Louis' Union Station, a crane last week deposited 19 excelsior-padded, jute-swathed statues on the pavement of a waterless fountain. The bulky packages looked like mummies but were the livelier fragments of a long controversy (TIME, Aug. 9, 1937; June 6, 1938) over nude statues in general, these in particular. They were the figures for famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri-known locally as Wedding in a Nudist Colony...
...park (where he once sold score-cards), knobby bathers by Lake Michigan. Says he: "The shabbier parts of Chicago are what intrigue me." Less intrigued is Mrs. Frank Granger Logan ("Sanity in Art"), who stormed "It isn't worth a nickel," when a Bohrod picture of a filling station won top honors and her $500 prize at the 1937 Chicago Art Institute exhibition...
Last week the Commission issued its decision. Although there was "grave doubt" about the station's "qualifications to operate in ... the public interest," the Commission was of the opinion that "an order of revocation of license need not be entered at this time." Reason: "These particular broadcasts were provoked by the occasion, and are not necessarily indicative of widespread infractions in the course of this station's broadcast activities...
Next week Harvard is scheduled to meet Mt. Holyoke on the subject "Government Censorship and Control of Communications." This will be a New England hookup over station WAAB, as was the St. John's debate...