Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planned long in advance, the House chose Massachusetts' Joseph William Martin Jr. as its 45th Speaker. It was a straight party vote (244 to 182). Retiring Speaker Sam Rayburn paid his successor a compliment: he is "a friend of mankind, a man of unquestioned character, of demonstrated ability, with a great, fine heart." Then Sam Rayburn broke precedent, swallowed his pride and reverted to the minority leadership...
...good faith of the House was promptly tested and proved. Speaker Martin crushed an attempt by one of his own party, New York's professorial W. Sterling Cole, to upset the streamlined rules provided in the La Follette-Monroney Reorganization Act. It was a good omen. The new rules stand; House committees are cut from...
Solid Methodists like their preacher to be a good mixer, but careful where he mixes. While 62.4% want him to be "a popular speaker at the Chamber of Commerce and service clubs, such as Rotary," only half as many approve his making "occasional addresses at labor union meetings," and 22.3% are flatly against it. On racial issues Methodists have few doubts: 95.7% condemn any minister who is anti-Semitic and 90.2% approve one who "proclaims equal opportunities and responsibilities for all racial and nationality groups...
...youngest men in the British Cabinet, will describe successes and failures of the Labour Party's legislative program at a meeting sponsored by the Liberal Union tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. Samuel H. Beer, assistant professor of Government, will introduce the speaker...
From Education: In the fields of education and cultural activities, women play a major part. The Institute's speaker on this theme is Mildred Helen McAfee (Mrs. Douglas Hor-ton), the "Captain Mac" who organized, trained and bossed 86,000 WAVES, is now again the president of Wellesley College. She believes that colleges (in which she has spent almost all of her adult life) are the place to start to right wrongs in the postwar world...