Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Town Hall, Author Christopher Morley debated his brother, Editor Felix Morley of the Washington Post on the topic: "Do Newspapers Do More Harm Than Good?" Said Brother Christopher, arguing the affirmative: "Felix is a diplomat of the status quo- he comes before you as a Talleyrand; I, shrinking in my intellectual exposure, will be a Sally Rand." Cornered at a Methodist Bishop's Council in New Orleans, famed Prohibition-crusading Bishop James Cannon Jr., 72, admitted he had tasted liquor for the first time when his doctor last fortnight prescribed 30-drop doses of wine...
...conference. He was bursting with things to tell, and spoke with the same ringing voice which correspondents heard at the press conference that followed the Supreme Court decision killing NRA- his famed ''horse &buggy'' utterance. Before he finished he had got around to the same topic in a somewhat different...
...Teaching of Controversial Subjects" will be the topic of a free, public lecture tomorrow night by Professor Edward L. Therndike, of Columbia University speaking in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock...
...course called "Magic of Speech." a weekly half- hour donated to the National Congress of Parents & Teachers, a Music Appreciation Hour conducted by Walter Damrosch. NBC also furnishes an hour a week to "America's Town Meeting of the Air," a program of uninhibited discussion on a set topic by luminaries like Raymond Moley and Fannie Hurst...
...last week the implications of this Fair Trade ruling had become the hottest topic in the Nation's retail trade. Many states beside Illinois and California have price-maintenance laws, and in those which do not enormous pressure will be brought to have parallel legislation enacted. Only possible obstacles now are state constitutions. A New York law identical with Illinois' was disallowed by state Courts on state constitutional grounds this year...