Word: speakered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ugly Realities. Herter did a shining job during his twelve years in the legislature, rose to be speaker of the lower house during his last four years, 1939-43. "He was the best parliamentarian the legislature ever had," says Democrat John Powers, now president of the state senate. In 1942, at the urging of Massachusetts Republicans who wanted to unseat an isolationist G.O.P. Congressman, Herter agreed to run for Congress, scraped by with some help from that old Massachusetts political custom, a gerrymander of his district...
...main speaker will be H. O. Davis, fellow at the Center for International Affairs...
...night three weeks ago Mahdawi's show-which is conducted in Iraq's former Hall of Parliament, with spectators occupying the former Deputies' benches and Mahdawi and his fellow judges lolling on the speaker's rostrum-put four airmen in the dock for taking part in the Mosul revolt. It was a gala evening, witnessed by TIME Correspondent William McHale. Two hours beforehand every seat was filled; hundreds of ticketholders were turned away. The highlights of the performance...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History and the second speaker at the Forum, characterized the Republican Party as "afraid of new ideas" and in favor of a "do-nothing policy...
...stand an hour of literate, intelligent conversation, then I urge you to go see your minister, your priest, your rabbi, or your psychiatrist: you are deathly sick." The speaker was Alexander King, sometime adman, artist, editor and dope addict, who has turned the kind of anecdote-flavored coffeehouse talk that has long been familiar in his home town (Vienna) into a highly successful TV act. His garrulous appearances on the Jack Paar show helped boost his current bestseller, Mine Enemy Grows Older, a book of amusing, scurrilous reminiscences. His often witty, sometimes vulgar, hour-long weekly talk show on Manhattan...