Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Ashurst fancies himself a literary man. He is not over-generous with newspaper interviewers. If a reporter brings up an interesting subject for discussion, the Senator is likely to reserve comment on the topic for a paid article in the Saturday Evening Post. He keeps under lock & key a voluminous diary, the posthumous publication of which he expects to immortalize him as the great recorder of the Washington scene...
Last week House leaders conferred earnestly with the President on that topic. In the House, petitions requiring 145 signatures were pending to bring up 1) a bill for Government refinancing of all farm mortgages, 2) a bill to impose a 30-hour week on industry, 3) a bill to impose a 6-hour day on the railroads, 4) a bill to pay in full the depositors of all closed banks. Congressmen up for re-election were sorely tempted to pass all of them. Yet any one of them would be embarrassing to the Administration. Moreover, the longer Congress stayed...
Opening another group of one of the most important series of lectures at Harvard, Walter Lippmann '10 will give the first Godkin Lecture at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The topic of his four lectures, which will be given every afternoon this week, is "The Method of Freedom...
Code. The publishers were reticent, so far as the public was concerned, on Child Labor ("We are watching its progress closely, prepared to take action if necessary") and the Newspaper Guild. But on one topic they were fiercely voluble...
Already Louisville was filling up with early comers, who beguiled themselves with the six days of racing week precede the Derby. But the topic which agitated everyone in town from the youngest bell hop at the Brown Hotel to booming President Whitefoord R. Cole of Louisville & Nashville R. R. was: which 20-odd of the 124 Derby eligibles would go to the barrier on Saturday? Which one would for 1¼ mi. run faster than any other, have a horseshoe of roses hung round its neck by the Governor of Kentucky, its name painted beside its 59 predecessors...