Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debate, which is sponsored jointly by the Harvard Liberal Club and the Harvard Socialist Club, will be open to the public. Twenty minutes have been set aside during which members of the audience who so desire may ask questions of either speaker...
...Time was, a century or more ago, when college presidents were active members of the teaching faculty, giving courses and advising students on a field of study like any professor. Of late, the growing complexity of university organization and administrative details has kept the college heads away from the speaker's platform, except for those occasions met in performance of duty...
...ought to be recommended. But memories and elbows were jogged just in time. The fact was discovered that members of the Interparliamentary Union, members of Congress and previous Nobel prize men are "duly qualified" for recommending. And off to Oslo went the prayer of, besides Mr. Dawes, the following: Speaker Longworth, Senators Shipstead and Schall and Representative Newton of Minnesota (the Kellogg State); Senators Burton (oldtime peace man) and Fess of Ohio, Senator Walsh of Montana...
Recriminations. The House's debate was fanged with many a poisonous word, mostly spewed at the Anti-Saloon League and its attempt to dominate the House by a circular letter from Dr. McBride. Dr. McBride sat in the visitors' gallery, facing the Speaker and behind the festooned clock, through which for years Wayne B. Wheeler used to peek out as his minions did his will on the floor below...
...President warned against pride. Brightly he illumined the need for further constructive economy. "A short time ago," he stated, "there were pending bills which would have doubled our annual cost of government. Had there not been a constant insistence [by the speaker] upon rigid economy, many of these bills would have become law. A decrease of less than 10% in the income of the nation would produce a deficit in our present budget...