Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Associate Professor John Ciardi was the only speaker not drawn from the Law School faculty, which could not produce a Wallace supporter. He expressed doubt whether he "had been summoned as a sacrificial lamb or as a prophet," but said he would assume the latter. His statement of the Progressive theory was based on the grounds that "society is essentially a process of getting something for nothing...
Tonight's Law Forum will bring five faculty members to the speaker's platform for candidates. Two Truman supporters, one speaker each for Wallace and Dewey, and one protest speaker will air their views. In New Haven tonight the Harvard debating team will back Truman, while their comrades here take the Republican side. Students for Thomas will present a C.I.O. speaker for the Socialist candidate in Harvard Hall tonight...
...right hand of Frederic K. Coykendall, chairman of Columbia's trustees, who was enthroned on a great horsehair armchair that had once belonged to Ben Franklin. Four times Ike heard his praises (and Columbia's) loudly sung; each time he tipped his gold-tasseled mortarboard to the speaker. Then Chairman Coykendall surrendered to President Eisenhower the university charter, the keys and the horsehair throne. At that instant, as if on cue, the sun smiled through the clouds...
...spot in the Square, the crossing in front of the Coop, has been made progressively safer. In addition to a traffic light, a policeman with a loud speaker was added last year to the protection force. In fact the foot traveler is now ridiculously safer there then he is on the other side of the subway island, or in from of Phillips Brooks House...
...Baldwin Touch. The Conservatives denounced controls and praised free enterprise, but they rarely descended from generalities. Arguing about denationalization of already nationalized industries, one speaker brushed off a tough problem with oldtime Tory nonchalance: "If I don't like my eggs scrambled, I'll throw them away and prepare another dish to my choice." That was an unfortunate simile; few Britons these days have any eggs to throw away...