Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference Thursday night at Phillips Brooks House, in which students and other persons connected with the University participated, it was decided that definite action would be taken in behalf of the prisoners arrested last June in Harvard Square. All the prisoners were charged with speaking without permit and with disturbance of the peace, although, as the committee claims. "Some of them did not speak and the demonstration was so orderly that if continued for more than half an hour until the police interrupted...
Partisans of such fame as Norman Thomas, Hamilton Fish, and Stanley Baldwin will speak on the subject of political philosophies at the eleventh annual parley of Wesleyan University to be held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, December...
Among the others who have agreed to speak are Harry W. Laidler, who will join Norman Thomas in discussing socialism: the Honorable John Dickinson. Assistant Secretary of Commerce speaking on the New Deal: Max Eastman, author and editor, who will explain communism, and Seward Collins, editor of the American Review, whose topic will be Pascism...
...penetrates the level of superficiality that restricts so many modern writers. In "Lost Horizon," for example, through the eyes of the central character, Conway, one is brought into contact with the issues that underlie present-day life. But there is no preachment, no propaganda, nothing that to, so to speak, foreign to Conway himself. Now such writing has the elements of permanence. Hilton's style is faultless in its case and smoothness, easily adaptable to the motif of his novels. Thus, in whatever he has to date published, there is a compactness, a unity, and an appeal that makes...
...long years hot-blooded Congressmen from the South have smouldered at the presence of a lone Negro on the Republican side of the House of Representatives. He was Oscar De Priest of Chicago and he did not hesitate to speak up boldly for his race. As a result of last fortnight's election, when Southern Congressmen return to the Capitol on Jan. 3, they will find Representative De Priest gone. But their racial embarrassment will be more rather than less because they will find sitting squarely in their Demo cratic midst another Chicago Negro by the name of Arthur...