Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another voice is often confused by loudspeaker addicts for that of Mr. McNamee. The voice is Phillips Carlin's and it is this very similarity that prompts WEAF to assign them together. One broadcaster cannot talk ceaselessly; when he is resting it is less confusing to have a substitute voice of close resemblance. Mr. Carlin was a boyhood orator in Manhattan public schools. He entered the silk business. He went to war. He joined WEAF as an announcer and is now manager of the Manhattan key station...
Regular lectures and classes will cease during the reading periods in all Government courses except Government 1, and possibly Government 19. Instructors will assign such work as they deem suitable during these periods and in most of the courses will hold occasional section meetings to help the students in their work...
...century, they were customarily brought at once before the Supreme Judicial Court, and before a quorum of that Court. The General Statues of 1860 provides that four justices constitute a quorum of the court; and that in capital cases. If the prisoner does not plead guilty, the court may assign him counsel. . Preparatory to a trial to be had before the full court" (122, Sec. 2, 9). In April 1872, the number of justices required was reduced to "two or more" and this remained the practice until...
...prior to last, the use to programs had been customary. Boxes will be arranged for groups of six or 12 couples, and it is essential that all those going to the Prom should make a special effort to arrange boxes in groups of these sizes as the committee will assign all who have not done this to any boxes that are vacant. Groups should select their chairmen, who are then to fill out the blanks to be issued by the committee...
...enough, nay, eager, to rush its leading staff members to the trial, including saccharine Nell Brinkley who discovered a "lesson to mothers" for the front page. But the editor of the New York Herald Tribune may well have pondered before deciding the sensation was so unavoidable that he must assign to it Star Reporters Forrest Davis and Whitney Bolton. Both the Herald Tribune and the New York Times made pitiable (and dishonest) efforts at decency by referring to "Mr." and "Mrs." Browning. The Times kept the story off the front page-further dishonesty-but well knew that its readers would...