Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed at the conclusion of a weary series of polemics on the beauties of Socialism and the Marxist principles, was railroaded through at high speed, and none of the dissenting voters in the audience were given the opportunity either to state their own views or question those of the speakers. One member of the audience who attempted to speak his mind early in the meeting was threatened with ejection by the chairman in curt and poorly considered terms. When that speaker had managed to get out his message, the chairman dismissed him contemptuously with, "All right, you've had your...
...principal speaker, Professor Elliott, spoke as an "educational layman". He had two basic assumptions--American teachers are seekers after objective truth, and the function of American education is to perpetuate our democratic ideals. Both these assumptions can be readily granted. But from there on this theory treads on dangerous ground. According to it, since objective truth lies clearly on the Allied side, no teacher can be intellectually neutral. The best course for American education, then, is to preach the Allied cause...
...Roosevelt could thank many a man, but particularly two-Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina in the Senate, Lindsay Carter Warren of North Carolina in the House. Powerful Mr. Warren, a bull-built, blunt, 49-year-old country lawyer with a fine stand of black hair, may one day be Speaker of the House, notwithstanding the hankering of the White House Janizariat for John W. McCormack, of Boston's famous Ward 8. Last week Lindsay Warren, working glove-smooth with Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas, Whip Paddy Boland of Scranton, Pa., delivered the South bound-and-gagged...
...then vote the bill through as is. The House version of the Great Debate sounded hotter than the Senate's -chiefly because of the necessary brevity of the speeches-but actually meant no more. That the vote was in the bag was conclusively demonstrated when wily old Speaker William Brockman Bankhead, Hamlet of the House, took the floor for a passionate defense of the measure: near the finish-post, he always cheers the winner...
Died. Major John Roy Lynch, 92, pre-Civil War slave, made major of the U. S. Volunteers in the Spanish-American War by President McKinley, onetime Speaker of the House in Mississippi, three times a U. S. Congressman; in Chicago...