Word: stating
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...these two ends, the first was more immediate. The President moved to answer criticisms of the Defense Commission, by a new organization. He turned laconic Commissioner William Knudsen into a pamphleteer to state the "terrible urgency." plead with the U. S. to "roll up their sleeves...
Clipped by this decision were the wings of more than two score legal eagles, for 41 State Attorney Generals had filed briefs on the company side. And the Court set up a new definition of navigability, to wit: 1) any stream navigable by boats drawing two feet or more is "navigable"; 2) any stream that can be improved into navigability by expenditure of any "reasonable" amount of money is "navigable." The court further held that the authority of the Government over any navigable stream "is as broad as the needs of commerce"-a definition which broadened the commerce clause...
...STATE OF Music-Virgil Thomson -Morrow...
...late Federal Theatre Project was the biggest State-subsidized theatre on record. In four years it spent almost enough money to build a battleship ($46,000,000), employed 13,000 people at its peak, gave 63,600 performances of 1,200 major productions to audiences of 30,300,000, of whom some 65% had never before seen a living actor at work. This whopping project was run by tiny, greenish-eyed Hallie Flanagan, head of Vassar College's Experimental Theatre. Last week Hallie Flanagan published an ardent, lively history of Federal Theatre, Arena (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3), winding...
...print-hung, paneled walls, smelling of old leather bindings and armchairs, the Grolier is a club of booklovers more interested in a richly tooled cover than in a succulent footnote or limpid trochee. It was founded in 1884 by craftsmen and wealthy collectors to improve the then wretched state of U. S. bookmaking. Its name commemorates a great 16th-Century connoisseur of covers & colophons, Jean Grolier de Servier. Viscount d'Aguisy...