Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worried about getting the Truman program through Congress, and wants to reward at least the milder Dixiecrats: Harry Truman needs their votes in Congress. Last week the two factions took their problems to the White House, accompanied by Vice President Alben Barkley, House Majority Leader John McCormack and Speaker Sam Rayburn. When they emerged, McGrath blandly assured newsmen that Congressmen's "loyalty will be judged back in their home districts," not by their voting record in Congress...
...plonking." Writes Potter: "If you have nothing to say-or, rather, something extremely stupid and obvious-say it, but in a plonking tone of voice-that is, roundly, wisely, and dogmatically; or take up and repeat with slight variation, in this tone of voice, the last phrase of the speaker." Thus...
...Henderson in Salinas at a Joint Council of Local 78, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Workers, last summer. He resembles Elsenhower, is very charming and an excellent speaker--but he does not speak for labor. After being with him in saloons and at council tables I decided he was idealistic to fanaticism and blindness, yet without honor or scruples...
...Brag, No Bluff. The unhappy fact, reported Professor Ernest D. Engel, a university student-placement adviser, is that "companies are not competing for the graduates." Guest Speaker George Corn-stock, Seattle neon-sign manufacturer, agreed. "Business conditions," said he, "are still at a high level." But industries "are tightening up . . . weeding out the misfits and incompetents . . . Job opportunities are still here, but you'll have to beat the bushes more efficiently and thoroughly than last year's graduates." Thereupon, he took up the problem of just what the efficient bushbeater should...
...Coolidge prize is awarded each year to the top Harvard debater. The six finalists will argue two days before the triangle debate in the Coolidge Contest. The best individual speaker will receive the cash prize...