Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt had a date to address a high-school graduating class in northern West Virginia-at Arthurdale, the subsistence homestead community closest to her heart. But in her husband's chest welled up something which he wanted to get off to all the People. He announced that he would fill Mrs. Roosevelt's engagement, using a national radio hookup. Before he left Washington last week, newshawks knew what was on his chest: the 1938 Tax Bill, still lying unsigned, un-vetoed at the White House...
...amending it 'Or their revolutionary right 'To dismember or overthrow it!' Whether or not A. Lincoln would use the above words right now, he did use them in his First Inaugural address in 1861. Proletarian Composer Earl Robinson has set them to music. And this week they will be used again at the opening of the Tenth National Convention of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. For the benefit of a Columbia Broadcasting System audience and as many thousands as can jam into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden a chorus...
...never gave a public address; he went to only one scientific meeting in his life. His retiring nature was far from a result of shyness, but sprang rather from a sense of the dignity of the scientific life and a natural distrust of confabs, which he regarded as a waste of time. Emerson's observation about a better mousetrap was particularly applicable to Professor Kohler, for although he forced himself on nobody, his reputation for sagacity and good judgment caused chemists the world over to beat a path to the door of his office for advice on technical matters, academic...
Eucharistic Congress from Budapest. Papal bull reading, Papal Legate's address, mass singing, Wed. 1 p. m. NBC-Red. Procession of cardinals, Thurs. 3:30 p. m. NBC-Blue...
...carrying a black satchel full of publicity releases and pictures of herself taken shortly after her mother's death. But mostly she stays behind the heavy curtains of her old red-brick house on North 12th St. Her telephone is not listed. Her letterhead does not have an address. Her sister, who lives with her, is almost blind; her Negro answers the doorbell only when it rings a certain number of times. Projecting from the third story is an old Philadelphia "busybody," an arrangement of mirrors so she can see who is at the door without opening the window...