Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Gray, whose central conviction is that Congress has delegated to the President and the Federal Reserve System too much of its power to regulate the currency, devoted his first 15-minute speech to an unhurried introduction to his topic, happily concluded: "I thank you, fellow members of Congress, for your attention." His seven remaining talks will include discussions on The World Panic and the Disasters Following, The Remedy for Depressions, What Is Inflation? "I want to explain this Depression," says conscientious Finly H. Gray, "and at the close of the session you can't get enough time...
...Commerce Ernest Draper, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones, SEC Chairman William 0. Douglas and Farm Security Administrator Will W. Alexander. After these 14 worthies had put their heads together with President Roosevelt, he informed a press conference that the group would meet again in a few days, that the major topic had been the old, old one of railroad consolidation. Other topics: elimination of railroad holding companies, Governmental renting of the lines until they had been modernized and integrated, development of a special court to speed railroad reorganizations...
...Harvard Debating Council swings into action over the radio again today as it defends the topic: "Resolved, That the Administration's naval expansion program is for the best interest of America," against the Bates College team at 2:30 o'clock...
...editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of the New Republic for eight years, where he alternated his scholarly essays with firsthand accounts of strikes and political conventions. Absentminded, round-faced, stuttering slightly when animated, Wilson is a conscientious, molelike conversationalist. He sometimes surprises people by popping up from a topic they thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely where it had left off. Scholarly by temperament, a sagacious commentator on Latin poets, Greek dramatists, French fiction, he combines these academic pursuits with a love of the theatre, writes comedies (The Crime in the Whistler Room, This Room, This...
This lecture is the last in a series given by Dr. Tinker on the topic of "Literary Tendencies in English Painting...