Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Harvard's best known economists, and a noted M. I. T. professor spoke in the Dunster House Forum last night on "The Economic Outlook of Defense," before a crowd of 200 people...
John P. Wernette '32, assistant professor of Business Economy, and Professor Paul 'A. Samuelson of M. I. T. spoke on "procurement planning on the part of military 'authorities" as vital to our defense program and as a basis for further governmental control of business...
...neck into Greece. Like the riflemen behind trees who played hob with the British regulars in 1776, the Greek mountaineers from their hilltops demoralized an army which had been told that the Greeks would be pushovers, in fact would probably welcome Fascism with open arms. When Mussolini spoke, promising that Greece's back would be broken (TIME, Nov. 25), the Greeks continued pressing, working with geography instead of against it. Frantically, the Italians called on their Air Force to strafe and disperse the attackers, and for a day or two there was carnage around Corizza. Then...
...rugged-faced Tritons, Swedish-born Sculptor Milles (amid cries of "louder") quietly addressed the crowd in his own Scandinavian brand of English, expressed pleasure at all the exhibitionism ("It is the first time an exhibit of my work shows all the steps what we have to do"), spoke feelingly of the problems of outdoor sculpture. Often, said he, when a sculptor sees his work for the first time outside his studio, "he wishes to shot (sic) himself...
Hicks, who spoke last year on leftist literature for the American Civilization group, drawing a crowd of more than 200 people, is the author of "The Great Tradition" and "I Like America". He was formerly counselor of American History at Adams House, and literary editor of the "New Masses" magazine...