Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Ford bought his 50,000 tons, at $4 a ton below what steelmen quickly realized had been the price, but was the price no more. There started a week's orgy of price cutting. Steel price quotations fell as rapidly as stock quotations on a Hitler-speech day. The independents (staying in the black) offered to lay steel down in Detroit for $8 a ton less than the U. S. Steel Corporation, and the U. S. Steel Corporation (going into the red) met the cut. Little Steel's Girdler and Big Steel's Stettinius traded punches...
...ever written, it infuriated conservative historians and editors by documenting the shocking lucidity with which the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution in their own economic interest. Newspapers screamed that Beard was a "hyena." Ex-President Taft (whom Beard calls his heaviest critic-"by tonnage") damned it in a special speech. High schools banned the book; public libraries put it on the restricted shelf. Nicholas Murray Butler sputtered that his derelict professor of politics was aping "the crude, immoral and unhistorical teaching of Karl Marx." Charles Beard urged them to read Federal Paper No. 10, by Founding Father James Madison...
William C. Murphy of Aurora Illinois, was named winner of the $25 Coolidge price given annually to the Freshmen giving the best speech of the tournament...
...first time a University president will be giving a teachers union the open recognition of a formal address. President Conant's speech, which foreshadows an era of improved University-Union relations, will be off the record...
Besides hearing his speech, the 225 Union members, in their last meeting of the academic year, will elect officers. Ernest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English and president of the Union, will probably sum up the organization's accomplishments since he took office last year...