Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persuasive and what the British call "sound" man, at whose London house the Prime Minister of the day and even the King are glad to lunch or dine. It was no wonder, therefore, that two small news items about Sir Robert last week provided official Britain with its chief topic of holiday conversation...
...Court was appropriately made available. Both pamphlets were issues of Building America, "a photographic magazine of modern problems," pioneer publication in a trend toward placing the fresh stuff of life in the schools for study. This relatively little known magazine last week produced its 19th issue. The topic, as timely as the agriculture bills now under debate in House and Senate: Our Farmers...
...only newsy answer that he gave to any question served to bring the subject back to the pressing but rather more comfortable topic of foreign relations. Asked in cleverly-framed words whether he considered that holding a national referendum on declaring war would be consistent with representative government, he answered, flatly...
Slump. To dwell long on the sad state of trade would have been no gesture of friendship to the New Deal which has the slump already too much with it. Therefore, the topic of most concern to businessmen was little touched on publicly. One man, however, raised the doleful subject in no uncertain terms: Virgil Jordan, president of the fact-finding National Industrial Conference Board. He declared...
Taking as his topic "High Altitude Flying by Airplane," Stevens, U. S. Army Air Corps, discused the future of stratosphere flying and its obstacles. He emphasized the fact that it was possible by means of superchargers, blowers designed to send compressed air to the engine, to fly higher than 100,000 feet, although at a height of 60,000 feet air density is one-eight that of sea level...