Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of what M. Venizelos considered a "normal course" was the absorbing topic in numerous interested circles...
This year the business Nestors have said much concerning the Mellon tax plan; every capable publicity man by this time knows the stock arguments in favor of it, and thus a great unanimity of opinion has resulted. The topic of European recovery was worn threadbare during 1919-23 by prominent bankers and manufacturers, and it has been a genuine relief for their secretaries to write of the more practical and vital topic of taxes...
...press talks of the "fitness" of public men. Politicians prefer the topic of "availability." But Senator
...main subject for general discussion will be "Faculty Control of Athletics." President J. R. Angell of Yale will make the principal speech on this topic. The advisability of sponsoring the visit to this country of a delegation of European college men will be considered. The object of the visit is to make a study of American college athletics. The case of the eligibility of C. W. Paddock, world's champion sprinter, will also be investigated. Paddock has been declared by the Amateur Athletic Association to be ineligible to represent the United States in the Paris Olympic Games...
...expected that this speech will attract special interest, owing to the fact that by selecting this topic Justice Clarke will have to disprove the statement made by President Coolidge in his message to Congress in which he said, "The incident, so far as we are concerned, is closed...