Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead, the curtain had gone up on a slow first act in which Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority Leader Scott Lucas had run off one or two minor legislative routines. The pace should have been brisk; it was slow, and as the act proceeded, it got slower. That could be explained by the necessity of getting things organized. But the author, for one, believed that the trouble might be deeper than that. Last week he sailed on stage to charge that someone, in fact, had rewritten part of his show...
...secret ballot (only South Carolina still held out against it). It had passed a law requiring blood tests before marriage and it had approved a program to raise the depressed level of education in Georgia (the paid lobbyist for more education was Hummon's chief crony, ex-Speaker Roy Harris...
...Corbeiller, lecturer on applied physics, agreed with the previous speaker that natural laws "cannot give us guidance in the affairs of the day. But I believe," he said, "that scientific contemplation does suggest a new view of man's relation to the universe...
...Prince of Peace. The French government officially expressed the nation's "deep emotion." In London, Ernest Bevin rumbled: "[The trial] is utterly repugnant . . ." Six thousand Britons jammed London's Albert Hall, while thousands waited outside in the rain, some kneeling in prayer: speaker after speaker denounced the Budapest trial. Cried one: "Christ is indeed the Prince of Peace, but not of peace at any price...
loannidies is still not at the apex of the KKE; the top spot belongs to the secretary general, Nicolas Zachariades. The two men work closely together, but bad feeling between them dates from a Communist mass meeting at Athens' Olympic Stadium in 1945. Zachariades was the principal speaker, and loannidies was in charge of security arrangements. When he appeared, Zachariades was carried to the speaker's stand on the shoulders of a group of young Communists, picked by Uncle John. The loudspeaker, which had been blaring Communist slogans, fell silent. Tensely, the crowd waited for Zachariades to speak...