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...short space of an hour and a quarter there is, of course, no attempt made to catch the continuity or the integrity of the speeches. But every major address is represented by an excerpt and the scraps are in general judiciously chosen. The flavor of each man's remarks is fairly well indicated. The diverting little skirmish between the President of the University and the Governor of the Commonwealth, though not reproduced with all its spice, is indeed there. Mr. Curley is not shown thrusting out his pugnacious jaw, but Mr. Conant is happily depicted connecting with...
...Excerpt:-"My Lords you are impatient for the sacrifice! The blood which you seek is not congealed by the artificial terrors which surround your victim, it circulates warmly and unruffled through the channels which God created for noble purposes but which you are about to destroy. ... I am going to my cold and silent grave-my lamp of life is nearly extinguished-my race is run, the grave opens to receive and I sink into its bosom. ... Let no man write my epitaph for as no man knows my motives dare now vindicate them. Let them and me repose...
Italians: To the St. Louis Il Pensiero he wrote congratulations on completion of an Italian-American community hall. Excerpt: "Our citizens of Italian extraction have rendered valuable contributions through the years in making America the nation it is today...
...Literature Week" would create an unfavorable impression abroad, popular though it was at home, Propagandist & Enlightener Dr. Goebbels exerted himself to the end that last week not a single foreign newspaper correspondent cabled so much as the name of one of the 60 Kultur authors or an excerpt from any of their works...
After 90 minutes with the nominee, one-time (1921-36) Comptroller General John R. McCarl sat down, wrote an enthusiastic blurb. Excerpt: "I venture to prophesy that his will be the most economical administration our country has experienced for many a moon-and in striking contrast with the extravagances now so prevalent...