Word: speak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, has accepted an invitation to speak at the Herald-Tribune forum with such other sport limelighters as baseball star Lou Gehrig, tennist Helen Wills Moody, and Dwight F. Davis '00, donator of the Davis Cup, it was revealed yesterday...
Considering that he is a New Dealer, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas now has fairly good repute in Wall Street. Year and a half ago, however, he could justly claim to be the Street's pet aversion-invited to speak before the Bond Club of New York, he produced a caustic tirade which suggested the entire reshaping of investment banking and left his hearers speechless with fury. Among tart Bill Douglas' minor suggestions was that investment trusts take a larger role in underwriting...
...naming as chief beneficiaries William Reilly and Mrs. Kniskern. Reason: they "contributed a great deal to my happiness by their kindly and courteous acts. Neither ever expected anything from me for their many courtesies." Informed of her good fortune, pretty Mrs. Kniskern was too dazed to speak. Said William Reilly, now a $52-a-month hospital attendant whose luck has grown steadily worse: "Now that I'm a capitalist, I hope this Hitler drops dead." Reward In Cincinnati, the Traffic Safety Council decided to reward motorists who perform outstanding acts of courtesy and consideration. The reward (to be given...
...last month that the Department of Justice would not go to bat for Socialist Norman Thomas in his complaint under the Lindbergh Law (on kidnapping) against Boss Hague and the police of Jersey City who bum's-rushed him aboard a Manhattan-bound ferryboat when he tried to speak for civil liberties last spring. Such a storm of indignation rose from Liberals that the Department quickly disclaimed the report, said it was still studying the Thomas case. Last week Attorney General Cummings announced that evidence collected by G-Men would be placed before the Federal Grand Jury at Newark...
...Duce, as the ally of the Führer, alone rated to be met at the frontier of Germany by the Chancellor. The Italian Premier is also the only one of the four chiefs who can speak English, German, French and Italian. Nobody needed to speak Czech. The Big Four, in accordance with the original concept of 1933, were about to constitute themselves the arbiters of Europe, excluding from their councils Czechoslovakia, the League and the Soviet Union. M. Daladier and Mr. Chamberlain, arriving separately by air, were met by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...