Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some weeks ago the Dunster House menus bore the information that Professor Shapley would dine with the members and speak on a topic of interest in the Common Room after dinner. The genial astronomer fell ill and the visit had to be postponed--but the harm was already done...
...Administration's friends were uneasy. They could vote down Mr. Long's proposal but they could not silence him. He seemed determined to make Mr. Farley a daily topic of denunciation. Before the Post Offices and Post Roads Committee could act on his request for a Farley investigation he offered another resolution ordering Secretary Ickes to send to the Senate any reports by his investigators about attempts by Mr. Farley or companies in which he is interested to profit from PWA contracts. It was a shrewd move, for Mr. Ickes and Mr. Farley have clashed on many points...
...Stotesbury has said: "My favorite topic of conversation is my son Jimmy." Since Mrs. Stotesbury also gets along well with Mr. Stotesbury, Son Jimmy & bride should have plenty of money to use for Jimmy's ideas on monetary reform. His business career has been lively. First married to Delphine Dodge, daughter of Motormaker Horace E. Dodge, he stepped in after his father-in-law died, persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the company to a stock-selling syndicate for $146,000,000-biggest cash sale in Wall Street history. With his fat profits from...
Professor Cabot is of the opinion that business should be regulated by boards selected from men engaged in similar enterprises, and that the day of fearing friendly contact with a competitor must go. Organization of trade groups as encouraged by the NRA will be the topic for discussion at the next seminar...
...whole question provides a proper topic for the English classroom or for the social-science classroom. In contrast with the flippant attitude of the passing hour, there may issue among youths and among adults a conviction for restraint that harmonizes with the mood of an earlier and more rigid national attitude toward gambling...