Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When John Gates, former editor of the Daily Worker, was asked to speak at Queens College last year, the Administrative Council banned him from the campus. This decree of silence was prompted partially by public pressure, and partially by a few independent and outspoken Council members with muddled views about communism and the new radical generation...
Senator John F. Kennedy (D.--Mass.) will attack the lack of presidential leadership in the Administration's foreign policy this afternoon. He will speak in an address sponsored by the Young Democratic Club and the Law School Democratic Club in Sanders Theatre...
...this point Nixon, by then campaigning in San Francisco, took the hard, split-second decision to speak out against the President's position. Said Nixon to a press conference: "The President said that he did not believe that when an attack is made on the foreign policy of the U.S. it should be answered. For the President of the U.S. this, I think, is a proper position. But I will say this also-that for us who have the responsibility of carrying the weight of this campaign, to stand by and to allow our policies to be attacked with...
...began the greatest correspondence in the history of art. Eighteen years and hundreds of letters later, it was to end with the letter found in Vincent's pocket after he had fatally shot himself with a revolver: "Well, the truth is, we can only make our pictures speak. But yet, my dear brother . . . I tell you again that I shall always consider you to be something more than a simple dealer in Corots, that through my mediation you have had your part in the actual production of some canvases, which will retain their calm even in the catastrophe...
...theme of the address by Lodge will be "Theodore Roosevelt and America's World Responsibility." Elting E. Morison '32, Professor of Industrial History at M.I.T. and editor of "The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt" will speak on "Theodore Roosevelt and the Categorial Imperative...