Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ring in his voice mounted as he shouted the words, each a separate challenge. "Preserve" "Protect" and "Defend." "SO HELP ME GOD!" he added with sacerdotal solemnity. Act IV was Franklin Roosevelt's second inaugural address, an address which presented no program, no plans but the activating sentiment of the New Deal. The rain beat a tattoo in the microphones and twice the President wiped the water from his face as he unfolded his burden: "In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens-a substantial part of its whole population-who at this very moment...
General Hugh Samuel Johnson accepted an invitation to address the 14th annual "Sowbelly Dinner" of the potent Colorado Mining Association at Denver, telegraphed he would fly out. When bad weather grounded him in Washington, the Association's pressagent quickly arranged to transmit the speech by telephone. Due to bad weather there was difficulty completing the circuit, and when his voice was finally heard, General Johnson nettled the fidgety gold & silver miners by talking about copper...
Internal trouble in Japan rather than war may be the first storm to break in the Far East, said Professor G. N. Steiger of Simmons College in a talk yesterday afternoon at Brooks House before the Society of Harvard Dames. He devoted the first part of his address, entitled "Storm Signals in the Far East" to basic conditions in Russia, China, and Japan...
...parade of some 2,000 Relief malcontents straggled up to the White House in the rain, sent in a delegation to demand a 20% wage increase. Franklin Roosevelt was not there. An hour before, he had closed his office, gone into seclusion to work on his Second Inaugural Address...
...notable Canadian banking retirement last week was the resignation of old Sir John Aird from the presidency of Canadian Bank of Commerce. In his farewell address the dean of Dominion bankers announced: "Prosperity returned to the greater part of Canada...