Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president of the Harvard Teachers Association. The meeting will be held at the Commander Hotel, with a dinner at one o'clock followed by addresses by Professor Williams and John Erskine, author and professor of English at Columbia. Mark Sullivan, author and journalist, who was originally scheduled to speak, will be unable to be present because of illness...
Captain D. M. Reeves, of the United States Army Air Service, will speak on "The Romance of Military Photography" at 8 o'clock this evening in the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration. In his lecture he will cover the gathering of intelligence, one of the most exciting factors in military operations, and the development of visual and photographic observation from the air, which has tremendously influenced the technique of modern warfare...
...Harris '20, lecturer on Economics, will speak on "The Banking Crisis and What Next" at a mass meeting to be held this evening by the Harvard Inquiry at 7.30 o'clock in the Lowell House Common Room. He will take up the recent history of American banking in its relation to the national bank holiday, discuss the proposed emergency measures, and examine the case for inflation, which he, in company with many other economists, favors, provided always that it be limited...
...meeting of the Harvard International Council tonight at 7.30 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House, A. E. Hindmarsh, assistant dean and instructor in Government, will speak on "Lagging Peace Machinery--Manchuria as an Object Lesson," it was announced yesterday by M. S. Knowles '34, chairman of the Council. Dean Hindmarsh is the author of a recent book entitled "Force in Peace." This is the second talk to be given before the Council since midyears...
...took over the Presidency. His Cabinet was off his mind (see p. 12). Appointments to the sub-Cabinet and the diplomatic corps could wait until he got into the White House. He had written his Inaugural address. Most new Presidents orate an hour or more; he planned to speak for eight minutes, broadly outlining the "New Deal" and leaving its specifications to the message he would deliver to the 73rd Congress when called into special session in April...