Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studied, discarded. Last week President Hoover turned to Texas and found his man- tall, slender, greying-haired George Charles Butte of Austin. Born in California 53 years ago, the new Vice Governor was educated at Heidelberg and Paris. He had special qualities to please his President: 1) he can speak Spanish fluently; 2) his service as Porto Rico's Attorney General (1925-28) proved him a good colonial administrator ; 3) as dean of the law school of the University of Texas (1923-24) and as a special assistant to the U. S. Attorney General (1928-30) he showed himself...
...bond. The entertainment over, the cheer confiscated, dismally the guests went home. It was not the first time that Belle Livingstone-who tells stories about her friends Theodore Roosevelt, Lord Kitchener, Edward VII, King Leopold of the Belgians-has run afoul of the National Prohibition Act. Last April her speak-easy on Park Avenue was padlocked; she was released on bail. Although she did not know it, she was indicted on this charge fortnight ago. Her latest place-formally titled The Fifty-Eighth Street Country Club-was run along the same general lines as her Park Avenue establishment: $1 drinks...
Lewis Mumford, prominent author and an editor of the New Republic will speak on "The Alternatives to Dictatorship" at a luncheon meeting of the Liberal Club today at 1.15 o'clock at the Union...
...Shoemaker, of the Cavalry Baptist Church of New York will speak on "The Oxford Group" on Sunday, December 14 at 4 o'clock at the Phillips Brooks House...
...Clark, who is a physician of considerable experience with hospital work, writes as one would expect a professional man to speak on a subject on which he is well informed, but not a specialist. His comments are the result of thoughtful observation, and they form a criticism of American standards that is decidedly interesting and somewhat disturbing. If the statements are at times rather sweeping and general, they are none the less challenging...