Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, April 29) had left his rich Cass County acres and no head of first-rate hogs in the care of a friend and moved into smoggy Des Moines to do his biennial bit of legislating. The 98 Republicans in the 108-member House promptly and unanimously elected him Speaker...
...Kuester's first problem was not political, but he met it with his customary forthrightness. He flatly refused to follow precedent by wearing a soup-&-fish to Governor Robert D. Blue's fancy inaugural ball. Said Speaker Gus: "I know some fellows wear them, but the only way they would ever get me into one of those things is when I'm dead...
Fear & Terrorism. The first dramatic moment of the dramatic session came when Matteo Matteotti, 25, son of Italy's famous anti-Fascist martyr (TIME, Aug. 7, 1944), moved to the speaker's microphone. His wide mouth and slightly jutting jaw firmly set, his deep-set eyes solemn and stern, young Matteotti charged Nenni's party leadership with spreading "fear and terrorism," and denounced the Congress as illegal. The delegates rose and screamed: "Degenerate son!" But Matteotti doggedly finished his job, handed the presiding officer what he called documentation proving Nenni's terroristic methods, and calmly walked...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. Guest speaker: Earl Browder...
...Robert L. Wald's letter in Friday's Crimson. The phrase "typical Arab viewpoint" is informative, not editorial in nature and is used to better describe to readers who may not be thoroughly familiar with the sides in the controversy just what group is being represented by the speaker. This is a perfectly legitimate journalistic device. "At least in Hashem's opinion" is included for the obvious purpose of preventing a statement, printed as an indirect quotation, from being accepted unconditionally as fact, when, to the best knowledge of the reporter or news editor concerned, the "fact" is highly controversial...