Word: thee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be very nice to be Vice President of Yale; I am willing to accept the Vice Presidency of any place," said Victor Moore, "Alexander Throttlebottom," of "Of Thee I Sing," and "Let 'Em Eat Cake," when interviewed by the CRIMSON. "I'd like any job in that line, it's easy work, and you have...
When asked about the significance of plays satirizing the government, Mr. Moore said, "I never realized how funny 'Of Thee I Sing' was until I saw the real Congress in action. Then I really appreciated Mr. Kaufmann's satire. I thought we were over-doing it, but after my visit to Washington I saw that we were only scratching the surface...
...Such plays don't have much effect on the government," said Mr. Gaxton. "Both our plays have been produced at opportune times, so naturally they were successful. But they did not affect the administration in any way the administration that 'Of Thee I Sing' was satirizing was so used to ridicule that one play more or less didn't make much difference...
...been concerned with the legal nature of obscenity since 1931. In that year he ruled in favor of Dr. Marie Stope's Married Love. Three months later he rendered a favorable decision on her Contraception. He was the judge in famed plagiarism suits over Strange Interlude and Of Thee I Sing, in both of which he rendered decisions for the defendants. He earned the vacation he devoted to Ulysses by presiding last spring at the longest criminal case in the history of U. S. jurisprudence, the 109-day fraud trial of the promoters of the National Diversified Corp...
...shades of a happier, more opulent day hover over the trial of Ervin F. Brown, a member of the defunct Hoover bureaucracy; his naive confessions on the witness stand are of the stuff from which "Of Thee I Sing" was made. Mr. Brown was chief investigator for the Immigration Bureau of the Department of Labor in New York, and he is accused of accepting bribes from a criminal alien who was awaiting deportation. Brown's bribe-taking operations, however, do not compare with his other activities. A generous man, he singled out deserving Republicans for reward; these men were made...