Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holmes, professor of Education and dean of the Graduate School of Education, delivered the commencement address at the University of Pittsburgh on June 10. He selected as the topic for his talk to the members of the University's graduating class "Substances and Shadow in Education...
Dean Williams was 15 when he quit school to take a job as printer's devil on the Boonville (Mo.) Topic at 70 cents a week. In 1908 he persuaded the University to let him set up an experimental school. He has been its dean ever since, "the university president who never went to college...
...Peace through disarmament was President Hoover's topic in a speech last week welcoming the International Chamber of Commerce to Washington. Said he: "It is within the power of business men of the world to insist that this problem shall be met with sincerity, courage, and constructive action. It is within the power of statesmen to give to the world a great assurance for the future and a great moral victory for humanity...
According to cables from Japan, His Majesty highly praised the cherry tree grove of His Imperial Majesty, then gracefully introduced a less weighty topic, saying: "Have you a golf course...
...Meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce; at Washington. Radio broadcast address by President Hoover. Chief discussion topic: World Depression...