Word: aid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public speaking has thus joined the various English composition courses in providing vocational training for their more promoting students. Just as the "Advocate" and the "Monthly" provide a practical outlet for the talents of budding authors, so does speaking in behalf of the Community Fund give invaluable aid to aspiring orators...
...Vannevar Bush, President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, former vice-president and Dean of Engineering at M.I.T.; John P. Higgins '17, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts; Franklin E. Parker, Jr. '18, President of the American Arbitration Association and Director of the New York Legal Aid Society; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. '24, Senator from Massachusetts; Thomas E. Eliot '28, former General Counsel of the Social Security Board...
...have had trouble this year for in the new Senate "moderate" (economy-minded) Democrats outnumber New Dealers. For this reason Mississippi's Pat Harrison might have ousted Kentucky's Barkley, the Majority Leader who beat him out by one vote in 1937 with Franklin Roosevelt's aid. Instead, Senator Harrison chose last week not to run for Leader this year: he did not want the job of spokesman for the Administration. "Dear Alben" was re-elected by acclamation and Illinois' elegant, whiskery old James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis was persuaded to continue as Whip instead...
...Topper and its sequel were derived, will doubtless be enchanted by the gaiety and humor of these proceedings. Less prejudiced cinemaddicts may feel that the comic possibilities of its trick photography are less inexhaustible than its producers supposed. Once the side-splitting spectacle of doors opening without apparent human aid has lost its novelty, the picture's only surprises are occasional droll antics by Actors Young and Burke, and a few scraps of bright dialogue. Best line: Mrs. Topper's comment on Gallic manners: "Too bad the people in America aren't French...
...suddenly changed from a loud opponent of U. S. militarism into a strident exponent of Rearmament. Now that the dictators have triumphed at Munich, he declared, "A fascist world can be prevented only, in the words of the manifesto of the Communist International on Nov. 7, 'with the aid of ... governments which are ready to use armed force...