Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade center. He was responsible for important financing: the towering Bank of Manhattan Co. Building; Allerton Corporation (residential hotels for unattached ladies and gentlemen); and, biggest and most important, Tri-Utilities. With a strong face, a bold eye, an athletic demeanor (golf, horseback), young Banker Ohrstrom became a popular topic among Wall Street journalists and conversationalists. They talked, rather to his embarrassment, of his brilliance and his youth...
...stated topic of the World's Conference, which followed preliminary gatherings at Toronto last fortnight, was "Youth's Adventure with God." As is usual at such conferences, the Y. M. C. A. concerned itself chiefly with international problems on which it hopes that its busy world-wide membership may have some influence. Delegates from 50 countries last week passed resolutions calling for revision of the Versailles Treaty, abolition of tariff barriers, abolition of national armaments. The German delegation held separate meetings to draw up a resolution absolving Germany of sole War guilt, later endorsed by the other delegates...
...York's Democratic Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been assigned the unlikely topic "Land Utilization and State Planning." The bulk of his address was on New York's reforestation program. But he did manage to preface it with as neat a little political appeal as any of the Governors ever heard, in which he outlined a presidential platform for himself. Naming no names he flayed the Hoover Administration, mentioned the Depression, struck a distinctly national note. Excerpts...
Governor Roosevelt was followed in the afternoon by Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Gifford Pinchot. The program committee had assigned him a safe and sane topic: "Timber Needs of the Future." This he swept aside to launch into a tirade against public utilities, his favorite political theme. He warned the Governors of the political domination of the Power Trust. He named four groups: Mellon-Morgan, Insull, North American, Harris-Forbes. These, he said, generated about 95% of U. S. electricity. He predicted their merger into one colossal combination. Excerpts from a speech which got the biggest applause...
That at some meals in the House the tables be labelled French, Modern, or English Literature, or some other subject of either intellectual or athletic nature which is to be the topic of conversation at that table. Then the student may sit at the table corresponding to his main interest of the moment and thus find the people who have the same interest. This will save much time now wasted in inane conversation and no longer will be seen the tragedy of two people sitting together discussing the mediocrity of the food when they both are vitally interested...