Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested graduates and undergraduates who are competent to discuss some subjects from the point of view of the "younger generation." Usually the requests are for speakers on current problems but frequently we are asked to provide travel talks, or talks on religion. Last year one man was registered to speak on the "Breeding and Care of Snakes." This year we plan to continue our usual program, but to augment it by providing cooperation between the Speakers Committee and the Social Service Committee...
...many of us so-called radical or progressive members of the medical profession are foolhardy enough to brave the wrath of the Old Guard of medicine?maybe it is a martyr complex or something?and speak right out in meeting...
...Franklin Roosevelt's two-day vacation at Hyde Park enabled him to: 1)) speak to his youngest son, John, who had just jumped a $10 bail after having been arrested for driving 54 m. p. h. in Irvington, N. Y.; 2) congratulate his next youngest son. Franklin Jr., on his 21st birthday; 3) see his wife who motored down for the birthday celebration from Campobello Island, N. B. where she had spent three weeks in profound silence...
...years the Indians of the Southwest played a limited part in Western fiction, usually remaining in the story just long enough to let out a war whoop and bite the dust. With the novels of Oliver La Farge, braves and squaws seem at last to have been given sensible speaking parts, emerging as complex, poetic, dignified, good-humored men & women deeply conscious of the evil times that have come upon their race. Never loquacious, they speak with an easy informality that has the charm of a good translation of dialect. They suffer their humiliations at the hands of white...
...Davidson pleads his cause through your columns. I trust you will accord me a corresponding privilege, and will publish this, my request, that Mr. Davidson give the Senator Norris letter to the press, thus permitting my dead husband to speak in a controversy which must otherwise remain one-sided, because his lips are sealed by death...