Word: speak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles C. Concannon of the Office of International Trade, H. B. McCoy, Director of the Office of Domestic Commerce, and Christian M. Ravndal, Director General of the Foreign Service, will all speak at this evening's meeting. Dean Payson S. Wild of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will moderate...
...efforts to prevent Roman Catholic children from using public school buses? . . . The men who set out to destroy Roman Catholicism, in effect, destroy Christianity as well, because when the united Church of Rome falls there will be no hope for any other Christian church, especially Protestantism ... In this I speak as a Protestant and not as a Roman Catholic...
...inalienable rights as life, liberty and property. For better or worse, most Britons today are more wedded to Bevan's list than to Locke's. "Why is it," exclaimed a tall, exasperated Conservative M.P. over a substantial lunch last week, "that whenever I go to speak, the people seem to be interested in nothing but their social security and their dentures...
...coal dust still runneled into their sweat-sticky faces. Bevan always spoke precisely and to the point. He had suffered from a bad stammer (caused by an uninformed but successful effort to "correct" his left-handedness), but had overcome it by reciting Shakespeare out loud and forcing himself to speak up in public...
...lanterns hissed faintly as Premier Sun Fo last week rose to speak before China's Legislative Yuan in Nanking. There was only scattered applause. When Sun announced he would resign the applause was much louder. Most of the lawmakers had already decided that Sun Fo and his cabinet, who had split Acting President Li Tsung-jen's government by setting up shop in Canton, were delaying peace with the Communists...