Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoke venerable William Heard Kilpatrick, just retired by Columbia's Teachers College and now at Northwestern University, at the 75th or "diamond" convention of the National Education Association in Detroit last week. As 1,300 delegates and 12,000 vacationing NEA members crowded warmly into the Masonic Temple to begin four days of talk about their profession, no one was more on teachers' minds than the President of the U. S. He had just signed a new NEA charter which democratized the board of directors by dropping from it the Association's 22 past presidents, mostly school...
When the German Cabinet convened, the Führer spoke with rising fervor for nearly an hour and a half. The condensed official summary issued afterward ran to nine typewritten pages of fulminations against "the Bolshevist incendiaries of Valencia" and praise for the attitude of Benito Mussolini "which absolutely corresponds with that of Germany!" Even the newsorgan closest to mild von Neurath screamed in Berlin: "The only way to cope with the Red pirates is to weaken their military position...
Finally Senator Robinson took up the cudgels. He spoke as Senator Robinson has not spoken in many months. Said...
Friday, June 18, Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, spoke over the air. On June 1 Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, gave an address on a nationwide hookup...
...continual struggle in which a formal education is but the opening round. There is no retreat to a pastoral life for most of us, physical solitude is impossible, an unlettered independence of mind almost inconceivable; but in spite of the complexities of this century the solitude of which Emerson spoke is still within our sight. For all who are caught in the web of twentieth century civilization, one escape is clear and it is no retreat. We may commune with the sages of the past, we may share the accumulated spiritual wealth of humanity. By the daily "renewing...