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Word: speak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the whole world thus searching for loopholes in the British pledge, Septuagenarian Chamberlain this week rose again to speak in the House. In the diplomatic gallery U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Soviet Ambassador Ivan M. Maisky, French Ambassador André Corbin listened. On the floor the group of M. P.'s who had long scoffed at the Prime Minister's efforts to get along with Herr Hitler hung on his words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Watch on the Vistula | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Christ in Concrete, autobiographical but imaginative, is a passionate, humorous, pathetic story of peasant Italians in the U. S., at work, in tenements, in animal anguish and animal high spirits. Author di Donato's Italians speak a translated Italian, lyrical, bawdy, tender, crude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bricklayer | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Saturday will be devoted to various forums and seminars conducted by University officials at which diversified activities will be explained and discussed. Presidents of some of the Harvard Clubs will also speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNI TRAVEL TO NEW ORLEANS FOR ANNUAL MEETING | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14 will be the guest of honor at the Adams House dinner tonight. He will speak informally in the dining ball during dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coasters To Hear Saltonstall | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

While the Senate is a revered Roman institution, the Chamber of Deputies-conceived in the 19th Century's surge of parliamentarianism-was not. Since 1925 (when Il Duce squelched all opposition) its chief activities have been to applaud Dictator Mussolini when he rose to speak, cheer him when he sat down and pass hastily and without debate any and all bills he wanted passed. Although 100% Fascist and a complete rubber stamp, the Chamber nevertheless remained a relic of the recent parliamentary past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Theorist | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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