Word: charleses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The celebration provided for and by this august gathering consisted of songs (Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout, Baritone John Charles Thomas) and speeches. Three of the speeches were thumping successes:
Charles Evans Hughes (Excerpts): "Here the ground swells of autocracy have not yet upset or even disturbed the authority and responsibility of the essential legislative branch of democratic institutions. . . . What the people really want they generally get. ... In the great enterprise of making democracy workable, we are all partners. One...
Many a U. S. and British newsman has since elaborated the original Cockburn details, spreading the story that a group of rich, pro-Fascist Conservatives were meeting and regularly plotting at Cliveden, country estate of Lord & Lady Astor. Among the reported Cliveden coups were the political downfall of Foreign Secretary...
Salvation Army General Evangeline Booth, said Lady Astor, was "up to the neck in the Cliveden Set," since she often comes to the estate. Franklin D. Roosevelt was once "compromised" there. During the War, when the estate was a military hospital, he came out and helped mow Cliveden's...
Practically every large experimental laboratory in the world has been guided by the example of the Pasteur Institute. And no single laboratory in the world has been responsible for so many bacteriological discoveries, largely directly applicable to preventive medicine. Among the achievements of the Institute are development of a vaccine...