Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford himself had nothing to say last week, nor did Son Edsel, although the arrival of the decision made him three-quarters of an hour late to the Detroit combined performance of the Yale Dramatic Club and Whiffenpoof songsters.* Elated U. A. W. President Homer Martin dashed off a wire to Harry Bennett asking for conference. Said Mr. Martin: "You need not fear a conference of this sort. We do not believe in force or violence, as you evidently do." As translated by reporters into printable English, tough Mr. Bennett's comment was "Phooey...
...Justices Taft, Sanford and Van Devanter) upheld it, again dissented, snorted that their colleagues were losing "all sense of proportion." To the confusion of observers Justice Hugo LaFayette Black, who in 1935 as a Senatorial investigator blatantly commandeered the telegraph messages of William Randolph Hearst and others, voted against wire tapping...
Like private wire tappers, Federal wire tappers work in a number of ways-clipping connections, installing induction coils in receivers, attaching amplifiers to the walls behind instruments and listening from an adjoining room-all of which are frowned on by telephone companies. American Telephone & Telegraph, which appeared as a "friend of the court" in the first U. S. Supreme Court case to urge that telephone conversations are private property, cooperates with Federal agents if necessary but has long been campaigning for an act of Congress to outlaw the practice altogether...
Disney, Inc. "It was always my ambition to own a swell camera," says Walt Disney, "and now, godammit, I got one. I get a kick just watching the boys operate it, and remembering how I used to have to make 'em out of baling wire." The baling wire period in Walt Disney's life lasted from 1901 to 1930. In 1901 Walt was born in Chicago. His father, Elias, was a contractor, who now lives quietly with Walt's mother in Oregon and hears from his famous son about twice a year. The family moved...
...dead babies. In three hours the mouse died, a press photographer on hand to record the scene. From Manhattan, Dr. Bundesen ordered 15 monkeys for further experimentation. They got out of their cages in his office and had to be baited with peanuts and netted with wire wastebaskets. This episode was also photographed...