Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night. What he said has been said before, but perhaps, in the eighteenth century measure of success, neither so well nor so timely. Fully aware of the fact that all freshmen classes the country over are being snowed under with blizzards of advice, he spoke briefly and on a topic about which his public service has given him a rounded knowledge...
...will take place at 7.30 o'clock tonight at the Union. At this time W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, Arnold Horween '21, Head Football Coach, and B. H. Ticknor II '31, captain of the 1930 football team, will address the meeting, which will be extremely informal. The topic of the evening will be Athletics and Physical Education at Harvard, when the new men will be given an opportunity to learn about the facilities offered them in the University for indulgence in any sport they may wish. The moving-picture reel of Harvard athletics will be shown at this...
Later President Hoover took Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh to his Rapidan camp. Other guests: Assistant Secretary of War Davison, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Young. Talk topic: aviation, commercial and military. Col. Lindbergh played at throwing darts with his wife, watched others putt around a Tom Thumb golf course built by Marines near the President's camp...
Strikes by Communists, or led by Com- munists, were Witness Wood's chief topic. He said the needletrade walkouts at Passaic, N. J. (TIME, March 15, 1926 et seq.), at New Bedford, Mass. (TIME, June 2, 1928), at Gastonia, N. C. (TIME, April 15, 1929 et seq.) were started by Reds who appealed to "parlor pinks" for "relief funds," but who disappeared when such money stopped coming in. He urged strict anti-Red legislation but discounted the affects of the Reds among U. S. work- ingmen: "They never won a strike in the U. S. . . . So far as taking this...
...topic was to be common with the Anglican Bishops at Lambeth* and the Congregationalists at Bournemouth, 107 miles away: church union in India. The handicap of Christian missionaries in India as well as elsewhere is that the heathen cannot understand the competition between Christian denominations. In India there are now a South India United Church (formed by Congregational, Presbyterian and Reformed converts), a Wesleyan Methodist Church of South India, an Anglican (Episcopalian) Church of India, Burma & Ceylon. The hope of these three Christian churches in India merging soon is good, because their vested interests are neither old nor extensive, because...