Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This fee by the way increases with heavier trucks, and properly supervised this ordinance would bring the State a great deal of revenue. As it is. you will note that the J. P. made himself $3.15#151;the officer $2.90-the witness (that guy killed me, he never once spoke a word) $1- and the fine was $1. WHAT DOES THE STATE...
President-Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell spoke briefly and with feeling for the man who worked for so many years under him. He stressed the fact that Mr. Penypacker's experience as Headmaster of the Boston Latin School served him well in his Harvard position, making him ideal as a member of the admissions committee...
...back from Chateau d'If (which takes about forty minutes by boat) I sat next to three girls who looked French but spoke Greek. They praised Dumas' imagination, showed traces of profound interest in the ancient "Massilia" during the Gallo-Roman epoch, then turned girlish and discussed men: Frenchmen were too short, but nice to be gay with; Germans were rough but make good husbands; Englishmen are stiff and cold; Americans are rich-but oh, so very young! Yet how good it would be to meet some men, no matter from where. "Come, Loretta. you are nearest, shall we commence...
...held his peace on one topic, he spoke out boldly on another of national concern: the upward spiral of commodity prices. He was visited by Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, spokesman for other U. S. mayors, who protested a new PWA rule which requires all of the Federal grants for Public Works projects to be spent on relief labor. This was followed by a visit from a delegation of the House of Representatives who wanted to appropriate $300,000,000 more for PWA, which now has only $155,000,000 left to spend. To both, Franklin Roosevelt answered...
Claiming that his great discovery in the British Museum was a manuscript, dated 2137, which revealed the evolution of a world democracy from the present time, Harold J. Laski, Professor of Political Science in the University of London, spoke to a large audience at the Ford Hall Forum last night...