Word: topically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...topic was Republican politics. Said Bertie: "I won't have anything to do with that fellow Stassen. He is no Republican, never was, and the same thing goes for Tom Dewey. He's no American; he's a New Yorker. . .. Like Willkie before him, he was put up by the international bankers in New York ... to save England and British Imperialism. ... I could have elected Willkie if he campaigned as an American.... Poor fellow, he thought Dewey beat him in the Wisconsin primary ... I beat him. . . . That's Tribune territory over there...
...week's end, after the worst political buffeting of his presidential life, Harry Truman turned up unannounced in Washington's First Baptist Church. The sermon topic: "The Silver Lining...
Traffic safety is a subject which most newspapers regard as worthy but unexciting. But it has long been a favorite topic in the New York Daily News. For nine years Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor has drawn a macabre series of traffic don'ts called Inviting the Undertaker. The subject was closer than ever to Publisher Joseph M. Patterson's heart after the Sunday afternoon in 1939 when his brilliant managing editor, Harvey Deuell, suffered a heart attack while driving to work, swerved his car into a cable fence and was killed...
Every fourth Sunday for the past four years, a group of physicians and psychiatrists has sat down to breakfast in the Detroit Athletic Club. Their aim and table topic: to revive the unfashionable belief that babies should be breast-fed and coddled by their mothers. By last week their revolutionary crusade had become a national movement to urge that Mother Nature knows best...
Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery professor of Organic Chemistry, will be the featured speaker at tonight's meeting of the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of the Inter-Collegiate Zionist Federation of America at 8:15 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. All students interested in his topic, "Palestine," are invited to attend, whether they are members of the organization...