Word: speaks
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Only Child. In the committee rooms, things were humming. Presidential Candidate Harold Stassen appeared before Senator Robert A. Taft's Labor Committee to speak his piece on labor legislation. While his onetime protege Joe Ball glowered at him across the table, Stassen declared that the closed-shop ban and other anti-labor provisions of Ball's four labor bills would give so much "excess power" to capital that labor would be back to the bedrock days of the 19203, and the U.S. economy with it. Stassen's key suggestion: a strike should be called only if authorized...
...shoptalk about sterility. With straight scientific faces, the American Society for the Study of Sterility (western branch) sat down to consider the fact that one-seventh of all U.S. couples are childless, and why. When Paul Popenoe, director of Los Angeles' American Institute of Family Relations, rose to speak, he nearly stopped the show. Said...
...Catholic hierarchy can put the Roman Catholic Church on record, and is listened to accordingly. But both the general public and the churchgoing public are aware, I think, that no such authority is vested in the Protestant clergy. That fact has been part of the Protestant boast. Protestantism will speak with authority, and be listened to accordingly, when it is apparent that Protestantism, and not chiefly its clergy, is speaking. And very often what it says will be more worth listening to and certainly more clear and understandable...
...easy this time as coach Johnny Chase's charges venture forth against one of the leading college sextets in the nation, and one that boasts three Pentagonal wins and no losses as well as an 11 to 0 shutout over Princeton Thursday. "We'll let the score speak for itself," said Chase yesterday at a final practice in the Boston Arena...
William G. Saltonstall, headmaster of Exeter Academy, will speak on private school teaching, while Dana M. Cotton, Director of Placement at the Graduate School of Education, will discuss public schools. Professor C. Crane Brinton will talk on colleges...