Word: talking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Moses, Commissioner of Parks for New York City, will speak this afternoon at the New Lecture Hall under the auspices of the Godkin Lecture Foundation. The talk, which is to be open to the public will begin at 4:00 o'clock...
Colonel John P. Hogan, Chief Engineer and Director of Construction of the New York World's Fair, will present an illustrated talk on "The World's Fair of 1939" in the New Lecture Hall at 7.30 o'clock tonight...
Colonel Hogan probably has more knowledge of the physical structures at the Fair than any other one man. In his talk he will stress particularly the many new and experimental technical innovations that are being tried out at Flushing...
Seattle. Author Leighton writes woodenly about Birmingham, bitingly about Omaha, lyrically about Seattle. He finds the pioneer spirit, dead in Omaha, still flickering in Seattle; in the talk of the loggers on the Skidroad at Yesler Way, in the logging camps, the history of the wobblies and the Weyerhaeuser fortune, in the remark of a Seattle housewife: "I have got to go over to Olympia tomorrow to help put pressure on the governor...
...retired from Yale and Scribner's, contributes a column to the Rotarian, picks an annual list of "best books," writes few book reviews. But his influence is by no means extinct. Still one of the most popular of lecturers, he estimates "I'll probably average a talk a day over the next year." These include the ten or twelve sermons he will preach in Boston, New York and New Haven churches, the 13 he will preach in the Huron City Church near his Michigan summer home...