Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wednesday evening there was a dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston, with Professor Ramsey as toastmaster and Alan T. Waterman as speaker. Waterman spoke on Government Support of Research...
From the other end of the line spoke Florida's Claude Pepper. In Taft's mellow old age, he predicted, Taft would remember with more pleasure his support of federal housing, education, medical aid, "than he will recall his Herculean success in putting the retarding fist of his power in the face of the multitudes struggling up the ladder of life to enjoy a few of the satisfactions to which the fortunate were born...
...this climate, the debate got under way. Ohio's Taft spoke from one end of the line: "There may of course be a mandate on the President to request the repeal (of the Taft-Hartley Act), but ... certainly the people did not elect a Congress in any way pledged to [its] repeal...
...feel that although the authorities cannot be accused of "overemphasizing" sports, there is a regrettable overemphasis on the subject in the minds of people like "the Harvard man" of whom I spoke earlier. Moreover, there is a distressing number of these "Harvard men," although many of them cannot be easily identified as such. Still, all of them, whether attired in grey or not, assume a cleancut, fanatic, and dangerously belligerent attitude when discussing sports...
...speaker at the sessions at which five prominent American industrialists discussed "Developing Executives for Business Leadership" was Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, who spoke at Saturday night's Harvard Club banquet...