Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That night some of the strikers' directorate, the United Front Committee, talked over the telephone to Norman Thomas, onetime Socialist candidate for governor and mayor of New York. Would Mr. Thomas care to test the legality of the Riot Act? Mr. Thomas knew that the U.S. Government has on file other documents besides those that provide for the suppression of disorder. There is for instance the Constitution, which guarantees to freemen the right to meet and voice their opinions. Next day, in Garfield, N. J., Mr. Thomas climbed into the crotch of an appletree stump and put the Riot...
...concentrated study to eliminate serious vocal difficulties and find herself as an artist. Both young women were given publicity beyond their merits. Both of them went on the Metropolitan stage pursued by reputations manufactured in advance, and neither of them had the technic or artistic maturity to meet the test...
...first radio "piracy" case fizzled last week in Chicago. The Zenith Radio Corporation (WJAZ) of Chicago, hampered by Secretary of Commerce Hoover's administrative regulation that it have only two hours' broadcasting time each week, decided to make a test case of his authority. They deliberately prolonged their broadcasting time on their licensed wave length (322.4 meters; also that of General Electric's Denver Station KOA), and deliberately used the wave length of Canadian stations...
...personally. For had not she and her sisters in singing had years of preparation before they were ready for the Metropolitan? She was indignant, protested last week against the system which would permit of such a premature Metropolitan debut. Said she: "No singer should be subjected to such a test without at least ten years' preparatory work on other stages. . . . Too much publicity at an early age and not enough hard work are the ailments affecting the present generation of vocal students. When I was a student every waking hour was spent in study. Now there seem...
...little scene on Boston Common had been most elaborately led up to. First Dr. Chase ? offended by an article called "Hatrack" which dealt with copulation in a cemetery ? had ordered newsdealers to remove the American Mercury from their stands. Editor Mencken, on advice of counsel, determined to test the validity of the order...