Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mechanism. In theory the House is run by a Speaker, a Majority Leader, a Minority Leader, the Rules Committee, the chairmen of the several committees-and an unofficial body known as the Republican Steering Committee. In actual practice the legislative program is framed and executed by a small group of insiders who constitute "the works" of the House. Some are prominent, some merely proficient. All are influential, in that they control important blocs of votes on the House floor. This inner group is an indefinite organization, based largely on personal relationships. It operates more by common consent than by formal...
...Henry Sloane Coffin, president of the Union Theological Seminary of New York City, will be the principal speaker at the conference. An effort is being made to secure John Farewell Moors '83, Harvard College Fellow, to follow Dr. Coffin on the speaker's stand...
...relation borne by the religious and philanthropic work of the Phillips Brooks House to a liberal education of the individual and the mass will be treated by the speaker at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. Mr. Moors has been asked to handle this phase of the topic. If he is unable to attend the conference, another man active in the field of education will deliver this address...
...speaker was Dr. Franklin Martin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gorgas Memorial Institute. He spoke of the late Col. William Crawford Gorgas, medical expert of the U. S. Army, whose prophylactic approach to the swamps, cisterns and gutters of the Canal Zone and Havana meant the annihilation of mosquitoes. Since in those places the buzzing, spiralling mosquito brought yellow fever, other ravaging tropical plagues, the extermination of the insect was a mighty mission. Therefore is Col. Gorgas' memory revered in lands which before his coming were "fastnesses of death...
...vote was taken to determine the winners. Fluent, suave Mr. Lennox-Boyd was first speaker. Witty, he amused the audience by describing the difficulties of speaking with an English accent to citizens...