Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dressed up along with 1,700 other citizens, President & Mrs. Roosevelt went out to dine in the grand banquet hall of the Mayflower Hotel. It was a testimonial dinner in honor of Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley. The President's personal tribute was an address in which he said: ''History . . . may even add his name to the distinguished list of major prophets. Even as the name of William Jennings Bryan sometimes suggests the arithmetic of 16 to 1, so perhaps the name of Jim Farley will suggest the more modern arithmetic of 46 to 2." Mr. Farley...
...weakness in the President's position. The open opponents of his bill were strong if not in numbers at least in conviction, in experience and ability. The opposition included all 16 Republicans in the Senate, from Youngster Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (chosen to read Washington's Farewell Address* to the Senate on Feb. 22) to Oldster Borah, and they included such veterans as Hiram Johnson, Arthur Vandenberg and Gerald Nye. The Democrats aligned solidly with these included such gentlemen as Glass & Byrd of Virginia, Connally of Texas, Bailey of North Carolina, Wheeler of Montana, Clark of Missouri, Burke...
Charles M. Storey, Jr. '37, Chairman of this year's Conference opened the noon meeting with a brief address welcoming the delegates and guests to the Conference and thanking them for their cooperation in making the meeting possible...
...conclusion of the address, Storey adjourned the meeting and the group broke up into the five round table meetings in the Faculty Club...
...greatly appreciate the invitation contained in Mr. Joseph L. Broderick's letter to address the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conference at Cambridge on the evening of February twenty-sixth, and am sorry to tell you that I have already made an engagement that prevents me from having the pleasure and satisfaction of accepting...