Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they think are necessary. Someone would perform a great service if they'd get out a definite plan for reform. Then the good man Friday of the New Deal would have something to oppose. As it is, he just smiles safely behind the smoke screen of those reformers who speak in terms of glittering generalities...
Economy. Another word of caution did the President speak lest Congress, emboldened by his big spending plans, end all economy measures. He asked that such Depression economies as still survive be continued. Comparatively trivial, they include reduced fees for jurors and witnesses in Federal courts, reduced travel allowances for postal employes, no re-enlistment bonuses for Army and Navy, enforced retirement of government employes after 30 years' service, as well as $6,000 less a year for Vice President Garner's official automobile. Nor did he want the 5% pay cut to which Federal employes are still subject...
...which will be very fruitful." When hubbub greeted this announcement Mussolini said in a fatherly way to his blackshirts, "Your reactions to this speech of mine are so intelligent that they prove to me that, while it is true that diplomatic action must be secret, it is possible to speak frankly on foreign affairs to a great people...
Payson S. Wild, Jr., instructor in Government will lead a discussion Thursday morning on "Disarmament and Munitions." In the afternoon, Bruce C. Hopper '24, assistant professor of Government, will speak on "The Clash of Nations in Manchuria," following which he will direct a study group on Pan-Pacific problems
Professor John Berdan of the English Department and member of Saybrook College at Yale University, will speak to "Englishmen" and all members of Kirkland House interested in a "Literary Tale of a Tub," after the House Dinner at 7.30 o'clock tomorrow...