Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock--Dr. H. S. Coffin will discuss briefly the main points of the afternoon meeting, and then will describe the place of such work as is done at Brooks House in a community. This address will be followed by general discussion...
When his short, 30-minute speech was over, Gustav Stresemann had unquestionably voiced the consensus of German opinion on these three vital topics. He soon received a vote of confidence 219 to 98. His speech was no less definitive and important than the Armistice Day Address in which President Calvin Coolidge spoke for the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 26) upon two of the very topics keynoted by Dr. Stresemann-Limitation of Armaments and Inter-Allied Debts...
...passionate climax of his address Marshal Feng boomed: "China has 400,000,000 people, yet we cannot resist the bullying of a nation with only a few scores of millions. Japanese Imperialism is comparable only to the ways of wolves and tigers. What with their gunboat policy and their heavy artillery sometimes we are treated worse than dogs...
Turning from foreign to domestic problems, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang concluded his memorable address thus...
...facts are these: A small portion of the Ivy Oration--the last paragraph--was a series of quotations from the Address, slightly modified to cover the existing situation. There was nothing startling about that. Everything from "Give me liberty or--" to the Book of Genesis has been subject to that sort of thing, with small damage to them or the feelings of sensitive listeners. The contention that I was trying to ridicule or undermine the memory of a great figure and a great occasion is unjust, and unwarranted by a single phrase, express or implied, in the Ivy Oration...