Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After hours, Dulles and Anthony Eden (whose trip to the Far East is the first ever made by a British Foreign Secretary while still in office) will take up Topic A, having come halfway around the world to resume the debate on ground close to Formosa (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Benton, the final speaker on the topic, "Ethics and Politics," said that such an Elections Practices Commission, composed of distinguished non-partisan citizens, could sponsor an "era of public enlightenment which our politics desperately needs...
...food was not the only topic to arouse interest. A demand in the early twentieth century to include the names of Harvard's Confederate dead next to those of the Union created intense controversy. Such Northerners as Charles Francis Adams prevented the move by suggesting that the Confederates build their own memorial at Harvard "when it can be a genuine expression of a universal sentiment...
...Lawyer Tom Dewey seemed to be presenting arguments on both sides of the case. Dewey dwelt at length on reasons why the President should seek reelection. His arguments were easily boiled down: the party, the country and the world need Ike. But when he turned to his other favorite topic, Citizen Dewey could not refrain from describing the pleasures of a man who chooses not to run again. Since he stepped out of the governor's office in Albany, he said, he has really been living: into the office at 10 a.m., out by 6, no midnight crisis that...
...offered each year in the memory of the late Edwin L. Godkin, who founded "The Nation" and edited "The New York Evening Post." Friends of his established a fund for the expressed purpose of inviting people not directly connected with the University to give talks on the specified topic each year. It was further stated in the agreement with the University that no regular lecturers were to be employed to give the talks...