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Randalls Island Stadium would be ready. Commissioner Moses promised they would be ready in time for the Olympic tryouts. Last week, Commissioner Moses kept his promise by opening the bridge, which was the only way to reach the stadium, one hour before the meet was scheduled to start therein. In other respects, Chairman Bingham & committee failed to realize their plans. In a dusty little stadium surrounded by tin cans and scraps of lumber, not quite half the expected capacity crowd of 22.000 turned up for the first day of the meet. Until a drenching thunderstorm chased them home, they...
Last week NEA delegates clutched at mimeographed copies of the questionnaire, indignantly read therein: "Do you believe in God? Do you believe in any of the doctrines of Communism? Have you ever been in Russia? Do you approve of the writings of Charles A. Beard?" Stormed wiry, liberal U. S. Commissioner of Education John Ward Studebaker: "The implications of the situation in the District of Columbia are of great significance. . . . We can tolerate no dictatorial censorship of thinking and learning." Promptly the convention thundered through a resolution condemning loyalty oaths, the Blanton Rider, "curbs on freedom of teaching...
...yowl of Republicans for Government economy and budget-balancing was answered in four nonchalant sentences: "We are determined to reduce the expenses of Government. We are being aided therein by the recession in unemployment. As the requirements of relief decline and national income advances, an increasing percentage of Federal expenditures can and will be met from current revenues, secured from taxes levied in accordance with ability to pay. Our retrenchment, tax and recovery programs thus reflect our firm determination to achieve a balanced budget and the reduction of the national debt at the earliest possible moment...
...request he made of the Holy See five years ago. Of the six MacManus sons and daughters, two had died within two years: Hugo, 20, of pneumonia and Hubert, 24, of sarcoma. Mr. & Mrs. MacManus determined to build a church on their estate at Bloomfield Hills, bury their offspring therein...
...seventh count summarized the other six, declared that "the reasonable and probable consequence" of Judge Ritter's actions was to "bring his court into scandal and disrepute ... to the prejudice of said court and public confidence in the administration of justice therein, and to the prejudice of public respect for and confidence in the Federal judiciary. . . . Wherefore the said Judge Halsted L. Ritter was and is guilty of misbehavior, and was and is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors in office...