Word: welters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freshmen we were lost in a welter of names and faces which we were totally unable to associate. As a consequence the Redbook board last year decided upon a supplementary issue which made the members of the class of '40 far better able to recognize their fellow men than were their predecessor. But again there will be a reshuffling, and again the job of linking names and faces will arise. Hence this letter and suggestion...
...Kings County grand jury failed to indict the three for murder. Nine months later, after the non-indictment had caused an election scandal, New York's Governor Herbert Lehman ordered a special grand jury investigation. Out of a sensational welter of charges of racketeering, political corruption, jury-tampering & bribery came murder indictments against the Luckmans and Hull. On Feb. 20, 1936 all were convicted of second degree murder, sentenced to prison for 20 years to life. Because Hull's lawyer, Brooklyn's Joseph A. Solovei, had been absent from court during the first days of the trial...
...National Exhibition of American Art, to which, year ago, the governors of all the 48 U. S. States, plus the territories and possessions, were invited to send group of pictures representative of the localities. The first show, held in Rockefeller Center last year (TIME, June 1, 1936), produced a welter of well-meaning mediocrity, was generally damned by the critics and was totally ignored by two States. Last week the second National art show opened to a very different reception in the rooms generally reserved for the National Academy of Design. Even the Virgin Islands and American Samoa were represented...
...with Robert Carson, conceived the story from which Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell wrote the screen play, handsomely photographed in the Technicolor which its producer, David Oliver Selznick, is pioneering with increasingly fortunate results, it emerges as a brilliant, honest and unfailingly exciting picture which, in the welter of verbiage about Hollywood heretofore contributed by stage and screen, stands as the last word and the best...
...grounds that their confessions had been wrung from them by torture. The decision on the Scottsboro case is well known. No one doubts the good job done by the Court in supporting civil liberties, but appreciation of this part of their work has frequently been lost in a welter of words on the political, personal and economic bias of the Court. It seems that in the heat of debate smoke gets in one's eyes...