Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pooling of the British and the United States naval forces in the Far East was advocated last night by Samuel Flagg Bemis, Farnum Professor of Diplomatic History at Yale, in an address given to the Eliot House History Club...
...Toward an Anglo-American Agreement," forms the subject of an address which Professor Samuel Flagg Bemis, Farnum Professor of Diplomatic History at Yale, will give in the Junior Common Room of Eliot House tonight...
...Senate. Rare was the Washington radio which was not tuned to Hugh Johnson's address. Senator Long, by his account to his colleagues next afternoon, almost missed it. "While I was about to undertake to throw myself into the arms of Morpheus," he related, "I thought I heard my name being mentioned over the radio in the next room. I listened for a little while, and, lo and behold, I became convinced that perhaps I was being mentioned...
When he had finished his address, Senator Robinson's fellow-members went climbing over their desks to pump his hand in congratulation for a deed many of them had long lacked the nerve to do. But the price to be paid for trading parliamentary mud with the "Kingfish" was soon exacted. Returning to the fray, the button-nosed Louisianian accused Senator Robinson of double-crossing him on patronage, asserted that President Roosevelt had told him [Long] to keep Senator Robinson "in trouble," revealed that Senator Robinson had made his brother-in-law Federal Rice Administrator in Louisiana. "Threatening...
Ruggles of Red Gap (Paramount) contains a quality almost unique in U. S. cinema, a quality which can perhaps be suggested by the fact that its climax is reached when the hero, the apotheosis of all fictitious butlers, recites Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in the back room of the principal saloon of Red Gap, Washington. Ruggles (Charles Laughton) is sitting at a table with his erratic master, Egbert Froud, and he is facing the crisis of his life. Six months before, he was valet to a British peer who lost him, in a game of draw poker...