Word: address
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summer H. Slichter, Professor of Economics at the Business School, has accepted an invitation to address the Congress of American Industry and the 42nd Annual Convention of the National Association of Manufacturers to be held in New York December 5 to 9, it was learned yesterday...
...next fiscal year. . . . Instead of spending, as some nations do, half their national income in piling up armaments ... we in America are wiser in using our wealth on projects like this which will give us more wealth, better living and greater happiness for our children." He ended his address by saying: "I'm going to press a button and that will set everything going." He pressed, flood-lamps lighted on the speaker's stand. Bonneville's first power unit was in operation...
...Before he abandoned his room, he stormed: "In my opinion this is the action of a lot of irresponsible individuals. . . ." The session at union headquarters was behind closed doors but newshawks heard loud yells and the ominous sound of falling chairs. Next day Mr. Martin flew to Manhattan to address the Women's Trade Union League...
...might have burned, for 3,000 members of the Law's outstanding professional association met there in a very different state of mind. If anything were needed to put a fine edge on the legal profession's fury at Franklin Delano Roosevelt it was the Constitution Day address three weeks ago in which he again voiced his low opinion of "legalistic interpretation" of the Constitution, described it as a "layman's document, not a lawyer's contract." Principal pleasure of the five-day meeting was a series of political speeches and a set of political resolutions...
...Comrades!" was the word with which Italy's Dictator opened his address to Germans, and he spoke in German, not extempore as usual but reading. "Comrades! . . . We shall never forget that Germany was not among the nations which imposed sanctions against us! ... Germany has awakened. ... I do not know when Europe will awake, for secret forces not unknown to us are at work striving to transform a civil war [Spain's] into a world conflagration. ... In answer to the question posed by the whole world, 'What will be the outcome of the meeting in Berlin...