Word: speake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, at 68, ten years after he returned to Washington to speak for free China, Wellington Koo delivered his last message and retired to live in suburban Westchester County, outside New York. From John Foster Dulles, who first met Koo at the 1919 Versailles Conference, where Dulles was a junior member of the U.S. delegation and Koo headed the Chinese delegation, went a warm letter. Koo's replacement: Hollington K. Tong, 69, member of the first class graduated by Columbia University's School of Journalism, China's propaganda minister in World War II, Nationalist China...
...address climaxed a wide-spread controversy over whether the 47-year-old New Hampshire resident should be allowed to speak on the campus of the state university, Sweezy, a former CRIMSON president who is now co-editor of the New York magazine "Monthly Review," was convicted of contempt of court for refusing to answer questions about his 1954 lecture...
...Caught with a huge rice surplus and unable to sell enough of it elsewhere (the U.S. is unloading a surplus of its own). Burma sent trade delegates to Iron Curtain countries to barter. They were eager amateurs who knew little about the fine points of trade, could not even speak Russian, and had to settle for whatever exchange goods they could get. Iron Curtain countries had plenty of cement to offer; cement, the delegates figured, would surely come in handy for Burma's projected construction program. So, without consulting Rangoon, they ordered a whopping 124,000 tons of cement...
Reed Benson, son of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, will speak tonight in Emerson F at 8 p.m. on GOP farm policy...
Congressman Carrol Reece, (R-Tenn.) will speak before the Annual Convention of College Young Republican Clubs of New England, Saturday in Sever 11 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be closed to the public...