Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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COOLIDGE FOR FIFTY MILLION BUSHEL WHEAT CREDIT FOR GERMANY. COOLIDGE WARMLY FAVORS AMERICAN WHEAT FOR STARVING GERMANY. Such were the headlines appearing in the German press to put heart into suffering Teutons. In Berlin, U. S. magnanimity was the sole topic of a single day. The announcements were premature, being possible but not yet probable. In any case relief measures, if undertaken, will be upon a sound economic basis...
...Harvard, where chapel is anything but compulsory, such a program would approach the ridiculous. If the most desirable thing were to get a large congregation every morning, the obvious and least objectionable method would be compulsion. Dressing up a sermon to look like a lecture, or brazenly substituting timely-topic talks would spoil chapel for those who honestly want a religious service; and the others who might go could certainly not deceive themselves into thinking that they were going to a chapel. It would be absurd to turn the morning service into a forum and delight in the multitudes...
...Washington, under the auspices of the Federal Council of Churches, was held a " Citizenship Conference." Its roster of speakers included Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, William J. Bryan, Senator William E. Borah. They found a common topic in prohibition...
...speak in Michigan University's Hill Auditorium, Nov. 2, on the League of Nations. The Board of Regents then remembered that when Arthur Hill gave Michigan the auditorium, he stipulated in the deed that it should never house " a partisan or political discussion." Interpreting Mr. Wickersham's topic as political, the Board announced that Mr. Wickersham would be obliged to seek another rostrum. This announcement was echoed by the Secretary of the University, who closed the doors of all buildings on his campus to Mr. Wickersham and his " political propaganda...
...Business Outlook" was the topic considered by the convention in its preliminary session last night. Addresses were delivered by Professor Charles J. Bullock and Professor Warren M. Persons, both of the Committee of Economic Research. A general, informal discussion the meeting...