Word: speak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning the class will meet at 9 o'clock in New Lecture Hall to hear College officers explain various problems connected with the year's studies. Alfred C. Hanford, Dean of the College; Keyes DeW. Metcalf, director of the University Library; and Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, will speak...
...Marshal did not speak softly. He knew his audience. Cheering workmen wanted to hear of the victory. He told them: "German arms on land and in the air have achieved what has been considered unbelievable." They wanted to hear that the Westwall was safe. He said so: "If they should be mad enough to attack our western line, streams of blood will flow." They wanted something to laugh over: "Old Chamberlain said he'd like to live to see the day when Hitler would be removed. Well, he has reached Methuselah...
...said, "In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depths of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your thresholds and speak to you myself...
...emergency measures, including war credits of $2,500,000,000, extending conscription to men from 18 to 41, giving the Government control over trade with the enemy. Same day the Ministry of Transport took over the nation's railroads. At 6 p. m. the Prime Minister began to speak. This time he had something...
...were now contemplating whether and how far they were able to consider British proposals. . . . If it was possible to make the German Reich and its head of state take this . . . then the German nation would not deserve anything better than to disappear from the stage. . . . I have decided to speak to the Poles in the same language as they are speaking to us. . . . Our soldiers have been shot at, and since 5:45 we have been shooting back...