Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...religion, the two outstanding figures of 1938 were in sharp contrast save for their opposition to Adolf Hitler. One of them, Pope Pius XI, 81, spoke with "bitter sadness" of Italy's anti-Semitic laws, the harrying of Italian Catholic Action groups, the reception Mussolini gave Hitler last May, declared sadly: "We have offered our now old life for the peace and prosperity of peoples. We offer it anew." By spending most of the year in a concentration camp, Protestant Pastor Martin Niemoller gave courageous witness to his faith...
...wouldn't feel like a Senator unless I did." First woman to serve in the South Dakota Legislature, Senator Pyle was a candidate for Governor two years ago. As soon as she arrived in Washington, she personally screwed her nameplate on the door of her temporary office; spoke at a luncheon of the Republican National Committee; had a look at the Capitol; hurried down to the Interior Department to discuss "South Dakota problems"; drew doodles on a pink Senate memo pad. "This life," she exclaimed, "is a hectic whirl...
Arnold Brecht, professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research in New York, and W. W. Stockberger, adviser to the Secretary of the U. S. Department of Agriculture spoke at the same meeting. John J. Maguire, Commander of the Massachusetts American Legion and D. H. Davenport, associate professor of Business Statistics, were others of the senior delegates who attended the junior delegate meeting...
Robert L. Green '39 ex-football captain, acted as chairman and introduced the speakers. First on the list was Governor-Elect Saltonstall who spoke from a political standpoint of working toward the goal of freedom. He closed on the note that intellectual attainment must be open to everyone at all times...
...union which was trying to start in their midst. A. F. of L. Organizer Ben Berk promptly complained to the National Labor Relations Board that Endicott Johnson inspired the letter, thereby violating the Wagner Act. When George F.'s visiting friends presumably spoke for themselves last week, NLRB was still investigating Berk's complaint. In the circumstances, wise old George F. confined himself to the business at hand. Said he: "I haven't in my heart ill will toward a single soul this morning. How could I have, with this expression in front...