Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That afternoon, he gave congressional leaders the news. He did not ask how they felt about it. "He told us," Speaker Joe Martin said. The following night, Harry Truman went on the radio...
Although the Yale team won the decision at Winthrop House, the judges there were unanimous in naming Edwin J. Jacob '47 of the Crimson team, as the outstanding speaker of the night...
...State Department deems a rock-bottom minimum. Representative Taber, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is not convinced that France and Italy need help. House Majority Leader Hallcck asserts that Mr. Truman's requests will be "shot full of holes" by the time Congress gets through with them; while Speaker Martin feels the whole thing is "his (the President's) responsibility...
...elected. But this was no coup d'etat. The fact that a Fascist or semi-Fascist party won in a free election makes the situation that much more dangerous. It reveals a rapidly increasing despair of American aid materializing into anything more than hot air. While Congressmen investigate and Speaker Martin announces that there is no danger of starvation, U.S. business counts its dollars, the termites of Fascism and Communism eat into the crumbling remains of European freedom. The price we may have to pay for our sloth and half-hearted ness will make the billions spent in the last...
Introducing the speaker of the evening will be Ivor Richards, University Professor, who is the author of a book on World Government in Basic English entitled "Nations and Peace...