Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is a witch hunt bill," asserted Daniel B. Schirmer '37, who spoke on behalf of the Communist Party. He called an outright lie a charge made earlier in the hearing, that the Communist Party is promoting and directing atomic research...
Henry Leo Shattuck '01, a member of the Corporation, spoke in opposition to H442 as a private citizen. He argued that the Bill would be an unnecessary law clumsily supplementing measures such as the Anti-Anarcy Law, the Teachers' Oath Law, and the Smith Act which are already on the books...
...Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, supported Shapley's defense to the "propaganda" charges when he said yesterday that the Writing and Publishing panel at which he spoke freely discussed the many opposing view which were presented...
...once the Legion's staunch supporter, had also accepted its demise. He was still half-heartedly chasing his old dream of a democratic Central American confederation, but he had shifted to diplomatic means. The new approach involved cooing noises aimed toward Honduras and El Salvador. Inspired newspaper stories spoke hopefully of future meetings between Arevalo and Honduras' new President Juan Manuel Gálvez, between Arévalo and the Salvadorean junta's Major Oscar Osorio. Guatemalan student delegations were hustled off to both countries to spread good will. Noting slight leftward turns by both governments...
When he was teaching about Sam Johnson, Professor Chauncey Tinker seemed a good deal like the great Samuel himself. He was a crisp and courtly figure, far from the "man of most dreadful appearance" Boswell wrote about, but he spoke in coffee-house prose, and like Johnson, he knew how to command attention. For more than 25 years, Chauncey Brewster Tinker's Yale classroom was one of the two or three most popular on campus...