Word: topic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partisan talk, scheduled for 8 p.m. in Langdell North Middle, will consider the problems that a lawyer encounters when he enters politics. Dewey is the third of a series of speakers addressing the SBA on this topic. During the fall term Theodore R. McKeldin, governor of Maryland and Joseph Cox, Justice of the New York Supreme Court spoke. The group will sponsor a final talk in the spring by Paul Butler, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
...week before last, as it will be next week, and for weeks to come, Topic A of U.S. politics was the future of Richard Nixon. "Mr. President," a reporter put the first question at Eisenhower's press conference, "there have been some published reports that some of your advisers are urging you to dump Vice President Nixon from the Republican ticket this year, and that, secondly, you yourself have suggested to Mr. Nixon that he consider standing aside this time and, perhaps, take a Cabinet post. Can you tell us whether there is anything to those reports...
Nixon himself is acutely aware that he is Topic A, and he has had strong impulses to step down from the ticket; he is aware of the U.S. tradition that one does not announce for the vice presidency, and his course will be to make up his mind and let the President know in advance of the convention what he wants...
...announced topic was dialectical materialism...
...current Advocate, however, is neither its prose nor its poetry so much as its new, businesslike format and its equally serious policy of having a lead editorial or review in every issue. The first of these, Charles Sifton's review of Leslie Fiedler's essays, handles an important topic with some comprehension and a bit of felicitous expression. The Advocate is at last beginning to advocate something, if only as an appreciation of others' ideas. Eric Martin's cover is pleasant enough, but its light blue might have appealed more in warmer weather. Biddle and Midgette illustrate well, as usual...