Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debate was followed by a short address by Commander R. C. Grady, head of the Naval Science Department and an active member of the United States Navy, who led a fleet of submarines in the World War. He spoke on "Increased Naval Expenditures," bringing out first the point of national policy. People look with apprehension at the bill now before Congress for an enormous naval appropriation. It is true that both up-keep and original cost would involve a total of nearly a billion dollars. But such an expenditure would be not only desirable but indispensable. The United States...
...residents of the Mississippi Basin, looking northward, saw millions of acres of snow that would soon melt and incalculable clouds of rain that would soon fall. Winter had come and spring was not far behind. The peace of the public mind was not promoted during the week by an address to the third annual Midwest Power Conference, in Chicago, by Major-General Edgar Jadwin. As Chief of Engineers for the Army, General Jadwin may be expected to know what he is talking about. Said he, without giving any date: ". . . We now have a responsible forecast of a superflood, greater even...
...Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to France (1909-1912); a major on the staff of General Pershing in the A. E. F. When Major Bacon died in 1919, he left his widow one more distinction, seemingly one that would last. Their distinguished home in distinguished Manhattan was at the unique address: "One, Park Avenue...
During his address Count Volpi strikingly exhibited the fact that there are two opposed concepts of a debt. The first, generally professed by Anglo-Saxons, is that of an obligation which must be met simply because it exists. The second, based by Latins on experience, is to regard the entire voluntary repayment of a debt as a phenomenon both mystical and meritorious. Said Count Volpi...
...gave it as my opinion," said Dr. Frank later, "that Mrs. Russell had indulged in an exhibition of very bad taste and said that if I were a member of the Student Forum I would not favor bringing her to address a mixed audience...