Word: speake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noted traveller and director of the New England Museum of Natural History, Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, will speak on his explorations of Mount St. Agnes and Mount Sanford, Alaska, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...well-born man-of-the-world hobnobbing with distinguished visitors. He drove down to the Poughkeepsie lumber yard where the Potomac docks when it is there, got out of his car to handshake handsome Crown Prince Olav & Crown Princess Martha of Norway. Mr. Roosevelt, though fluent in French, speaks no Scandinavian tongues, but he did not need to. The royal Norwegians speak Mayfair English...
...Reichstag next day it was 2 hrs., 17 min. mostly of fun with patches of wrath, scorn, warnings, threats, insults, sandwiched in between the gags. With a pantomime that he seldom uses, the Führer, when he rose to speak, eyed his manuscript suspiciously and comically before he began to read. The deputies roared at that ; Dr. Goebbels' Berlin newspaper Der Angriff next day explained: "It was a small gesture, but one heavily packed with meaning...
...that Herr Hitler's speech was a master work. Exulted the Fuhrer's own Volkischer Beobachter: "The entire world was earwitness to the crushing rebuff of Roosevelt. . . . After this political execution of Roosevelt by the Führer, one is inclined to ask, 'Who would dare speak today about Roosevelt's message?' One thing is clear: Roosevelt's role as Europe's guardian angel is over...
Threats of war in Europe have been one factor retarding U. S. business, but last week a significant incident spoke in an-other tone of voice. After waiting anxiously for days, businessmen heard Adolf Hitler speak (see p. 18). Promptly the London market spurted up and the New York market headed down-a pointed suggestion that the worries of U. S. business are made in the U. S. Two of those worries...