Word: topically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chanin Building, where once it could not pay its office rent, the May Co. opened an entire floor of dazzling new red, blue and chartreuse offices, celebrated with a gay get-together. Chief speaker, as usual, was the company's florid, talkative president, George Storr May. Topic...
...Mather's topic is "The Other Second Front," a timely and stirring address on the spiritual objectives and motives in the present war. Navy or Army personnel at Harvard and their families are particularly invited...
...sooner had Frank Gannett's conference blown over than Bertie McCormick started up. The occasion: a "Constitution Day" dinner at Chicago's Palmer House. The guests: some 1,000 McCormick-variety Republicans. The principal speaker: the Colonel. His topic: the excellence of Illinois (which he sometimes attributes to himself) and of Midwest institutions, under which he lumped the Constitution, Lincoln and Illinois's Governor and 100% McCormick stooge, Dwight H. Green...
...senior's there is only one topic of discussion, and will be only one from now until the billets are announced. The standard greeting to a friend is: "What did you put in for?" There is a great deal of argument as to the value of first and second choices. Many officers took the attitude that they should state as their first choice exactly what they wanted even though, in some cases, they felt that they might not get it. Others took the very practical attitude of asking for what they thought they were going o get. It is wonderful...
...religious aspects of liberalism was the topic of discussion presented this week at the third of a series of seven informal meetings dealing with "Liberalism in a World at War." After the Reverend Frederick R. Griffin of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia had opened the meeting by forwarding the views as seen by a parish priest on "What We Mean by a Liberal Religion," the audience asked the speaker questions pertaining to a liberal faith in the regular discussion period that followed...