Word: address
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President of the Chamber of Deputies. Below them sat the U. S. President in a grey suit flanked by U. S. Ambassador Hugh Gibson and Son James Roosevelt arrayed in the new white uniform of a Lieutenant-Colonel of Marines (Reserve). Then, after listening to a half-hour address of welcome, Franklin Roosevelt arose to deliver his opening salute to Peace...
Written two days before in his little study aboard the Indianapolis, his address bore in its plush use of adjectives the inevitable mark of having been composed under the Southern Cross. On the desks of the assembled Congressmen and Justices lay copies of it neatly mimeographed in Portuguese. As President Roosevelt sonorously began, some of his hearers leaned forward attentively to stretch their knowledge of English, others followed with the text, sentence by sentence, with their fingers so as to applaud in the right places...
...which he was a member, appeared likely to pick Carl von Ossietzky, Dr. Koht resigned from the committee. Into his office last week raged the German Minister to Sweden, Prince Viktor zu Wied. To his heated protests Dr. Koht replied, "The Norwegian Government is not responsible. You may address yourself to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee." Next morning Nazi newspapers featured "this Norwegian insult," declared that in any case Ossietzky will have to surrender his $40,000 to the German Government, which may or may not let him have the equivalent of this sum in marks...
After the address there will be an open forum with opportunity for questions from the audience...
...list is divided into two parts, the first of which contains changes of listings in the original book, consisting of six errors and seven or eight changes in address and telephone number...