Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie Brannan was piqued. The American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation's largest and most potent farm group, had not even invited him to be a speaker at its 31st annual convention. Furthermore, the Secretary of Agriculture was pretty sure that the federation was preparing to crunch his controversial farm-support plan like so much Shredded Wheat and douse it with sour milk...
Berrien has noted what he calls a "vicious circle" in the club meetings themselves: outside speakers do not stimulate student participation; on the other hand, some people will not attend a meeting unless they can listen to a speaker. Berrien feels this often becomes a fourth classroom lecture, which is exactly what he tries to avoid. He supposes that some students are "organically spectators," but he is still anxious to strike a successful balance between speakers and student discussion groups, and he would like to introduce more round tables and debates...
...Chicago at a luncheon (scheduled long before the crash) to honor commercial aviation's record for safety. Their statistics proved that IQ49, even including the Dallas crash, could still be one of the scheduled airlines' safest years, with 1.2 deaths per 100 million passenger miles. Every speaker at the luncheon sidestepped the ugly word "crash" until hard-bitten Eddie Rickenbacker, president of Eastern Air Lines, got up, threw away his prepared text and adlibbed: "Crashes are the price you pay for motion...
...speaker advocated a limited World Federalism, which would have the main aim of preserving peace through disarmament, an international police force, and control of atomic energy...
...Michael Scott called again on the U.N.; this time he won a public hearing before the Assembly's Trusteeship Committee. The South African delegation refused to attend. But others among the 59 delegations listened carefully, read with deep concern a bulky document, In Face of Fear, which the speaker had compiled...