Word: addresses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wendell Willkie, president of the Commonwealth and Southern Company, has accepted in an invitation to speak at the dinner in Lowell House. Phillip la Follette, Governor of Wisconsin, also is scheduled for an address...
Actress Helen Hayes (Victoria Regina) worded her address of welcome solemnly: "The Council feels that perhaps the theatre has been backward in meeting new conditions, in adapting its methods to a changed and changing world. It may be that [workers in the theatre] have not been sufficiently wide awake; they have not seized or created opportunities to resort to strategy and salesmanship; to develop new audiences; to stimulate dramatic output and to reshape the physical conditions in existing theatre. Much ground may have been lost but one proven fact remains and that fact is thoroughly encouraging: THE DEMAND FOR DRAMA...
Pleased with this yarn, Reporter Paine was further tickled when letters from hopeful investors asking M. Grantaire's address began to flood the Press office. Soon Mr. Paine grew accustomed to seeing his fabulous tale reprinted in unsophisticated journals under the heading "Scientific Notes" or "Nuggets of Fact." Back from the Spanish-American War and the Boxer Uprising, working on the New York Herald, Spiderman Paine had the fabrication brought to his attention again in 1902 when a plagiarist tried to sell it to him for publication in the Herald. Soon thereafter, Reporter Paine gave up newspaper work...
...labor question ... is the outstanding problem in today's industrial life" declared Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace in a farewell address to the members of the American Iron & Steel Institute in Manhattan last week. To the nation's steelmasters, gathered in record numbers against a backdrop of the biggest steel strike since 1919 (see p. 13); the outstanding and directly related question was Mr. Grace's successor as head of the Steel Institute. The settlement by which Myron Taylor had made his peace with John L. Lewis had split the industry as it had never been...
Title of Elliott's address will be "Reforming Government to meet the Needs of Business," while Sanders will speak on "The Effect of Governmental Regulation on Business Administrators." No title has been announced for Bowers' talk, but it is understood that his speech will concern the Social Security Act, since he is an authority on the measure...