Word: gillette
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Roger B. Merriman '96 introduced Speaker Gillett by summarizing the duties and the traditions of his "high and most important office," and by speaking of the "high character, great tact, and splendid firmness" of the present holder of this office...
...feel a partiality toward the grantor of my later degree," said Mr. Gillett in his opening words after speaking of his alma mater, Amherst, and his Law School studies here, "that makes me favor it in its sports and games, which I still find as much interest in as I did many years...
...speaking at the third meeting of the Union's current lecture season in the Living Room of the Union last night, Congressman Frederick H. Gillett, Speaker of the House of Representatives, gave the Republican view of the issue which is to be decided today...
After speaking of the increasing number of college men in the House, especially from Harvard and Amherst in representing Massachusetts, Congressman Gillett urged that every young man select a party and be guided in selection by the finding of the same ideals and purposes in the men of the party he finally chooses to associate himself with...
...Speaker Gillett devoted the rest of his speech to the real significance of Article 10. He brought out the unstable and unnaturally aggravated conditions in Europe we would be under a compelling moral obligation to deal with, even to declaring war, which Congress could not refuse to do without repudiating the treaty. He emphasized that Harding stood for a League and that Cox stood for the present League, which there was no reason to believe he could get through the Senate...