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...Root-Pitney" vs. "Pow-Wow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUDGES IN MOCK TRIAL THIS EVENING CHOSEN | 1/22/1937 | See Source »

...finalists in the series of arguments that are held among various law clubs. William P. Fuller 3L and Gerald 3L, Traufman 3L, both of the Root Pitney Club, will uphold the taxpayers' side, while Dwight K. Parsons 3L and Andrew S. Grey 3L, representatives of the Pow-Wow Club, will argue the validity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A.A.A. REFUND VALIDITY ARGUED AT LANGDELL | 1/19/1937 | See Source »

...describes Johnson's arrival at Boswell's home, Boswell's delight at his dear wife's consideration for his friend, Johnson's unvaried conversational triumphs, the period from Aug. 14 to Nov. 22, when Johnson started back to England. Johnson's celebrated "bow-wow-way," as Lord Pembroke called it, without which his conversation would seem less extraordinary, appeared conspicuously in almost every one of the 101 days of his stay. Opinions on fornication ("I have much more reverence for a common prostitute than for a woman who conceals her guilt"), on gout, gunpowder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boswell in Full | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...Democratic Convention of 1932. As the 1936 campaign approached, how- ever, and the New Deal's need of all the support it could get in New York State became apparent, a notable change came over the President. Last week he addressed to Tammany's Independence Day pow-wow a letter in which he declared: "In this day, as in the days of its founding, the Society of Tammany is on the side of popular rights and against the exploitation of the many for the benefit of a favored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Roosevelt to Tammany | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...wow on syphilis and gonorrhea attracted 2,500 social sanitarians to Manhattan last week. Significantly they ignored morals, invoked statistics and publicity as their best weapons against the nation's venereal disease problem. As a result of open discussion, members of the American Social Hygiene Association hope that syphilitics and gonorrheics will cease to hide from doctors, will have themselves healed either privately or at free public clinics. Last week 577 communities had 827 such free clinics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 'Biggest Problem | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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