Word: address
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President found himself second in the news not because his words lacked their usual magic but because editors found his speech too generalized to get a good newsworthy grip on. A quarter of his address was given over to warding off criticism. His declaration that the profit motive should not be destroyed answered a question whose embers have for six months gradually been growing cold. Headline sentence: "The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief." Keywords of his theme: "broad" and "sound"-"broad program," "broad problem," "broad subjects," "broad outlines," "broad principles," "sound policy," "sound administration," "sound...
President Conant will deliver all address on "Scholarship" tomorrow morning at Amherst College. He will also be the chief speaker at the Harvard Club Dinner in New York, later in the month...
...University Training for Public service" will be the subject of an address by Dr. Carl J. Friedrich, associate professor of Government, before the Cambridge League of Women Voters tonight at 8 o'clock in the Parish House of the First Congregational Church...
...address is particularly appropriate since one of the special objects o all Leagues for the next two years is to secure "better trained men in public positions." The League claims that no government reform can be effective without the permanent service of a qualified, trained personnel. Dr. Friedrich is particularly interested in this field and has served as chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into public Personnel Problems...
President Conant has announced that he intends to direct his most earnest and continuous thought to the problem of maintaining and strengthening the faculty. In his first annual report he outlined his objective in unequivocal terms. In his address before the Associated Harvard Clubs on May 12, he reiterated his purpose. "I am convinced," he said, "that it is possible to find enough men who combine the two qualities (scholarship and teaching ability) in the proportions which are necessary, and to this end I propose to bend every effort...