Word: address
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston to deliver an address on "The United States of America" at a St. Patrick's Day dinner of the Charitable Irish Society, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee was jovial and easy with reporters in his room at the Copley-Plaza last night. Minus coat, tie and collar, his six-foot bulk draped over the side of an armchair, he parried press questions and waxed very optimistic about Democratic chances next fall...
Columbia Broadcasting System felt obliged to issue a statement explaining that it had scheduled the Browder address in accordance with its policy of granting free time to representatives of all recognized political parties. An engineer, it promised, would be ready to cut the speaker off the air instantly if he departed by so much as a word from his carefully censored text to sound the tocsin of revolt. It also announced that it had allotted Red-fearing Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. an equal amount of time on its network at the same hour next evening to answer Red Browder...
Oxford was well able to speak for itself. Famed Classicist Gilbert Murray summed up the opinion of many a don: "Perfectly monstrous!" Last week Oxford with graceful malice planned to send to Germany not a delegate but an address "extolling the greatness of German learning in the past." Hopping mad when only Cambridge accepted, Rector Magnificus Groh belatedly withdrew the rest of his British invitations...
...This address will be part of the second Tercentenary Meeting of this year, marking the anniversary of President Eliot's birthday. It will be held in Sanders Theatre, starting at 8 o'clock, and is open only to members of the University and guests by special invitation...
...result of this, Mr. Conant, accompanied by Mr. Green, will rush to the Boston broadcasting rooms of station WBZ immediately after the meeting in Cambridge, and Mr. Conant will be forced to repeat his address at 10 o'clock for the benefit of the radio audience. It will be relayed over WJZ, New York, and a nation-wide network...