Word: testings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shifted from Thomas Dewey and James Hines to Ferdinand Pecora. As the reform candidate whom Tammanyite Hines helped Tammanyite Dodge beat at the polls in 1933, as a Democratic judge presiding over a case that might make Republican Dewey Governor of New York, Justice Pecora was put to hard test of judicial impartiality...
Major Fletcher's duties will scarcely begin before the Wage-Hour law has been court-tested. Test No. 1 is to be in textiles, a big North Carolina industry. Said Administrator Andrews last week: the first test will be on "where interstate commerce begins...
This striking decision was announced at Moscow with dramatic display. The official press declared that on July 1 twelve wood-burners driven by Soviet crews exclusively female started out on a triumphal 7,000-mile test run which included a run through the Ural Mountains and was completed last week "with no accidents and no serious breakdowns." Foreign correspondents turned out to count the trucks as they were driven by their pretty crews through cheering crowds. They counted seven wood-burners which actually crossed the finish line out of the original twelve...
...fails to award Director Capra its prize for his first picture since Lost Horizon, most critics will be justified in surmising that its only excuse will be that he has already won it twice before. Known for his knack of inventing "business," Director Capra was faced with the supreme test in a play that was already as full of business as a beehive. How thoroughly he passed it can best be judged by the fact that his shrewd cinema editing helps more than anything else to achieve the paradox of making Vanderhofs and Sycamores on the screen seem more like...
...holdings in the first exercise of its most bitterly attacked utility duty. Attorneys for Associated Gas & Electric Co. and Atlas Corp., the two concerns with the biggest stakes in U. P. & L. since it went into 77B reorganization promptly indicated that the case might proceed to a Supreme Court test of the "death sentence," as most of the industry expected...