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...speech. "Profoundly disturbed," he did what no young M. P. is supposed to do: criticized his Party's leader on the floor. Blurting out with evident sincerity but without much coherence against Mr. Chamberlain's "jeering pettifogging party speeches," he said all year he had had to dispel to his constituents the "absurd impression" that the Prime Minister had dictatorial ambitions, would find it more diffi. cult from now on. "I frankly say that I despair when I listen to speeches like that to which I've listened this afternoon." Then, despairing Member Cartland trooped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Reverse | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Mark Jones, president of the Akron Belting Co., likes to tell teachers what is wrong with U. S. education. His theme last week: let the nation's educators dispel some costly national "illusions"; to wit, equality, security, collective bargaining, economic planning, democracy. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mr. Jones | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

James S. Lanigan '39, chairman of the Student Union's Practical Politics committee, spoke last night along with Joseph Lee, Boston School Committee man before 300 Roxbury school children and their parents in Otis Hall, Roxbury, in an effort to dispel the reputation for "radicalism" which the Union's activity there has aroused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lanigan Refutes Roxbury's Radicalism Charge for HSU | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...affair not at least indirectly tied up with "studies." His support for concentration conferences and House discussion groups was rather to be expected as in the indirect study line, but the boost for outside initiative and the declaration that "no one need fear overemphasis on studies" should serve to dispel the unfortunate and disagreeable shadow which has lurked around the top office in the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELCOME WORD | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...means to voice their protest and in the name of all those of my fellow-ministers in the U. S. who shall rise as one against such an interpretation I must ask you, the editors, and the designer to clarify that phase of the picture, in order to dispel any doubt in the minds of your readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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