Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quick pruts of irritation from Senators Minton, Thomas, Vandenberg, Burke, Nye and Adams, as well as several Congressmen. Steve Early, White House secretary, came out of the President's study next day and remarked to reporters with studied severity: "It would have been kind and polite of the speaker to have consulted the victim before he spoke." This satisfied nobody, but it served to remind a U. S. absorbed by the War that a Presidential election was only 377 days away, and that the third term was an issue...
...Fraser Gardner, indicted for perjury, filed a demurrer in Federal Court, claiming that because the Committee was nonexistent, he could not have committed perjury before it. Said Gardner: the Speaker forgot to reappoint the committee, although the House voted that it continue and gave it another...
Several notable examples of clear speech about the war by leaders of thought in this country are deplored in a recent editorial. With as much logic as grace you suggest one speaker as evil because you infer his association with material wealth, but seem even more at loss to explain the attitude of others whose riches lie in the field of learning. These clear voices, however, disclose nothing but the wish to advise the inexperienced and heedless concerning the facts of life. The educated freeman has a deep interest in opposing the contraction of the area where thought is free...
Both teams had prepared negative briefs. The announcer failed to discover the situation until he had introduced Thomas O' Toole '42 as the first speaker for the affirmative. When O'Toole gesticulated frantically and refused to go on the air, the announcer said, "Would any of you gentlemen care to take the affirmative...
This year, under the auspices of the Law School, members of the Faculty will give a series of ten public lectures, each upon a subject in which the speaker is specializing, and directed at significant present day tendencies, current problems, and other recent developments, the University announced yesterday...