Word: speak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jose Vilfan, Yugoslavian delegate to the United Nations, will speak on the problems facing Yugoslavia at 8 p.m. tonight in Emerson...
Robert L. Wolff, visiting lecturer in History from the University of Wisconsin, will also speak at the meeting. Wolff worked on OSS operations in Yugoslavia during the war and is expected by Schoen to comment on Tito's position in Yugoslavian politics...
...Union of South Africa has long had language trouble. Of its citizens, 1,226,382 speak Afrikaans (a simplified version of Dutch); 875,541 speak English; only 35,889 speak both. Since the country was officially declared bilingual in 1925, all official communications were supposed to be written in both Afrikaans and English; but in bureaucratic practice, a letter written in English was answered in English, a petition phrased in Afrikaans answered in Afrikaans. Last week the Department of Defense decided to end this haphazard arrangement. Setting a fashion which the whole government is expected to follow soon, the Department...
...Minister of Government and Justice, and sent them to police headquarters to take command. While they were on the way the President telephoned Lieut. Colonel Bolivar Vallarino, Remón's second-in-command and ordered him to surrender his authority. Vallarino listened glumly, mumbled a request to speak with Remón, then hung up abruptly and set to work. As matters later turned out, that was the precise moment when Chanis' hopeful plan began to fly apart...
...such a world, as Hutchins saw it, education had been split into specialized fields in which chemists could not speak to lawyers and hardly anyone was speaking to God, in which everything was a matter of opinion and each opinion was as important as every other. "It has become the fashion," he once told his students, "to be bewildered...