Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while last week, it looked as though big time polo were coming back to Cambridge. Then Bill Bingham spoke up, some leading philanthropists clammed up, and the zip of closing wallets was heard throughout the land...
...reward for his political support, on the recommendation of Secretary of the Treasury, William H. Woodin, he was made Under Secretary of the Treasury. It was one of the shortest jobs he ever held. His legal mind did not approve of President Roosevelt devaluing the dollar, and he spoke out against it. Roosevelt fired him. In a ceremony of Treasury officials at the White House, at which Acheson himself was a stiff-faced participant, Roosevelt handed the Under Secretary's job over to Henry Morgenthau Jr., remarking pointedly that he hoped Morgenthau's loyalty would stand up under...
When Gerhart Eisler spoke in the New Lecture Hall last April, there was a heckling element in the crowd which gave an annoying demonstration of contempt for the First Amendment. And when Gerhart Eisler spoke in Emerson D on Monday night, there was also a demonstration--a quiet and amiable demonstration of willingness to hear Marxist theories from a German Communist. There could be little doubt that the vast majority of Eisler's listeners disagreed emphatically with practically everything he said. Yet there were no outbursts of protest, no low-level practical jokes, no heckling...
...Alexander Forbes '04, professor of Physiology at the Medical School, was honored for his work in neurophysiology by a special convocation of the Eastern Association of Electroencephalographers over the weekend. A dinner was held Saturday night at the Hotel Continental at which several members of the Medical School spoke in tribute to their newly-retired colleague...
When Eisler last spoke here, late in April 1948, the expected outburst of trouble fizzled briefly and then settled into spasmodic heckling from the audience. Two students in cossack costumes provided the only incident of the evening. But they barely got to greet Eisler before they were ejected from the meeting...