Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, Democratic firebrand, Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, Republican man-of-all-words, spoke in the same room in Washington, D. C., one night last week. Some 150 newsmen heard them. Yet not a word of what they said appeared in the public prints. It was the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Club; at such a function the club beards itself with the phrase, "reporters are never present...
...Council has had since it was organized 20 years ago. Two of his predecessors like himself have been Methodists; Dr. Cadman is a Congregationalist, a radio-preacher, a columnist on the New York Herald Tribune, and pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn. Before the convention opened he spoke briefly in Manhattan to the effect that he did not plan to accept $25,000 yearly to preach over the radio and to the effect that too many Protestant dollars are used to build hideous churches...
...dedication took place in the Faculty Club of the Business School, following a buffet luncheon served there. President Lowell, William T. Aldrich, and O. M. W. Sprague '94. Converse Professor of Banking in the Business School, spoke at the ceremonies, paying tribute to the senior Mr. Aldrich and explaining the useful purpose of the library. W. B. Donham '98, Dean of the Business School, presided...
...Joffre, sitting beside him in a rocking chair, was observed to rock more vigorously. Her husband, with half closed eyes perhaps fixed on things far away, seemed to reflect as ponderously as had Old Dr. Tuffier over backgammon. Suddenly Mme. Joffre stopped her quick rocking, sat up bristling, spoke: "I wonder-I just wonder-how many people would claim they lost the Battle of Marne, if he had lost...
...bicycle race started in Manhattan last week and Milton C. Crandall arrived there with plans for a marathon talking contest which he will hold in January hoping that someone will beat the record of German Herr Parlatus who recently spoke in Berlin...