Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus in rank failure ended the first notable test of Attorney General Cummings' new policy of asking criminal indictments against all citizens, big and little, whose tax calculations disagree with those of the Government's tax auditors. Two months prior, amid a great blare of headlines, "General"' Cummings had announced that he would attempt to secure Mr. Mellon's indictment for tax crockery (TIME. March 19). So cocksure was he of his case that, in the public mind, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury, aged 79, was already behind the bars. In answer Mr. Mellon made...
...present written examinations are an hour long but candidates will be allowed an hour and a half for the new Latin test. It will consist of passages from Virgil or Ovid, Cicero or Ceasar, and two passages, of which the candidate must translate one, from Mediaeval and Renaissance poetry and prose...
Cornell now faces the real test. Yale and Dartmouth tumble into Ithaca on successive week-ends to meet a Cornell nine gaited to rapid moving. Yale will be there next Saturday before the biggest and happiest Spring Day baseball crowd since the early twenties. If Coach Paul Eckley's boys can beat both Yale and Dartmouth, they probably will have arrived at a point from which they can coast to the championship on even division of their final games in June--at home with Pennsylvania and in Hanover with Dartmouth...
...under any conditions within a 2,500-mi. radius, under good conditions anywhere in the world. Other radiocasters and the Federal Radio Commission feared the new giant might "blanket the dial," drowning out less powerful signals by failing to stay within its assigned channel of 700 kilocycles. For months test signals have been broadcast before daybreak while the Commission's investigators watched their frequency testers like hawks. Last month, satisfied that WLW would not hog the air, the Commission gave its authorization for the station to start regular commercial programs...
...over the land, newsmen kept one eye cocked on San Francisco. A big story was about to break. Not a line had appeared in the news columns of the daily Press, but practically every editor, reporter and desk man knew about it. It was to be the first test of the potency of the American Newspaper Guild. The villain of the story was William Randolph Hearst...