Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buzz of excitement. The opinion was the first of the Court's 1937-38 term. It also was the first one written by the Court's newest member and an exception to the procedure whereby new Justices serve an initial period before being called upon to speak for their colleagues. When Justice Black had finished, the Court proceeded to the rest of the day's business. By a 5-to-4 majority-Justices Brandeis, Stone, Cardozo, Black strenuously dis-senting-it held that a $10,000 gift made to an employe for "valuable and loyal service...
Harvard speakers were Phil C. Neal '40, who took the place of Thomas V. Healey '38, originally scheduled to speak, and Robert W. Bean '39. The affirmative debaters were Arthur Collins and John J. Daunt...
Kenneth B. Murdock '16, professor of English, will preside at today's meeting, the principal speaker being Robert Frost '99. On Wednesday Robert S. Billyer, associate professor of English, and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, will speak, in addition to David T. W. McCord '21, executive secretary of the Harvard Fund...
Died. Robert Potter Hill, 63, U. S. Representative from Oklahoma, onetime (1913-15) Representative from Illinois; of a heart attack; in Oklahoma City. Congressman Hill had been scheduled to speak at last week's meeting of the East Central Educational Association at Ada, Okla. First person who agreed to deliver the address in question was Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who died last July. Next Amelia Earhart was asked, accepted, flew off into the Pacific Ocean. After her President Henry Hardin Cherry of Western Kentucky State Teachers College at Bowling Green, Ky., accepted, and died. Dr. Melvin Everett Haggerty...
While national attention was focused on the annual Automobile Show in Manhattan last week, a ranking U. S. automobile tycoon rose in Boston to speak his mind. Said President William S. Knudsen of General Motors at a dinner of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts: "Our standard of living has been obtained by narrowing the gulf between Capital and Labor. To widen it will unquestionably tend to lower the standard of living instead of raising...