Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have talked briefly about the war, the postwar world, General Eisenhower, and Crusade itself. To date, they have included: General George C. Marshall, General Omar Bradley, Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, General Lucius D. Clay, ECA head Paul G. Hoffman, Lieut. General James Doolittle, General Mark Clark. Another guest speaker was Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who said, in part...
...issue has been raised," cried the speaker. "The country is looking at what we do in the next half-hour." The issue-whether Communists should be allowed to teach-was far & away the nation's knottiest academic problem. In Boston last week at its annual convention, the powerful National Education Association (825,000 state and national members) took its stand...
...teller count, taken by queuing up in two groups-yes or no-and marching past the counters. Rees won then by 168-165. But on a final roll-call vote, Administration forces were able to beat Rees by a bare 209-204 vote. All through these nervous moments, Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority Leader John McCormack prowled the floor, corralling votes, ably keeping their eyes on the intricate parliamentary maneuvering...
...impassioned oratory, the party agreed that it must proceed carefully so as not to lose its legal standing. One speaker defined the party's task: "To dream of a perfect, serene, ideal world preceded by years of torment and contemplation of spiritual ideals." Despite its recent gains, M.S.I, was still more notable for dreaming than action...
Production Code to forestall harsher action by public censors. The pressure group it fears most is the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency ("a C rating for a picture is death"). One speaker (protectively anonymous in the report) said: "[The Legion] is something that Hollywood should have fought and didn't ... for the same reasons that they have never fought anything: they didn't want to stop the flow of film for one week." ¶The U.S. mass audience, even the moviemakers admitted, is more grownup in its tastes than the run of movies are, and would support more...