Word: attending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beauties of San Francisco, last week's 77th annual meeting of the National Education Association was a typical coldwater convention. Thanks to the delights of Treasure Island, the incidental joys of cable-cars, Chinatown and the city's justly-famed cool weather, few delegates even bothered to attend the meetings-though smart pressagentry managed to fill the Opera House for one series of dull speeches. As usual, the convention delivered itself of some earnest "Whereas-es" and "Be-it-resolveds"; this time they were in favor of democracy...
...generous radio station WOR, time donated to pure Americanism is time well-spent. But free time attacking a specific political view usually means, in radio's unofficial code, more free time defending it. Last week, just before Mrs. Rushmore Patterson rushed off to South Dakota to attend ceremonies with the Gutzon Borglums at Mt. Rushmore† (named for her late, great lawyer father, Charles E. Rushmore) WOR officials queried her as to the future trend of U. S. Drama, Inc. She revealed that she hoped to present Liberty Leaguer John W. Davis in a program soon. The officials wondered...
...Hopkins said he would resume residence in Iowa so that his motherless daughter, Diana, 7, could have a "real home." Last week, to make good, he leased for two years from Aetna Life Insurance Co. a 388-acre farm three miles north of Grinnell, Iowa, where he went to attend his college class reunion. On a neighboring farm he had worked as a hand when a boy. Before returning to Washington, he went out to look over his new crops (69 acres corn, 32 acres oats, ten acres soy beans). Said he: "Farmers have for the first time in history...
...London, at the Trooping of the Colour, General Gamelin watched from a balcony beside Queen Mary. Also present at the Trooping, although not in uniform, was Germany's General Walter von Reichenau, who was in London to attend the meetings of the International Olympic Committee...
...Parents, are you letting your child attend these dance halls? Of course, the first step may be in a respectable, private home,--but let me warn you,--beware, beware...