Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote that the dinners were "backed by a big enough election triumph to justify serving stewed elephants." The 1,300 Mayflower diners ate their way in triumph through terrapin soup, pompano, breast of capon, coupe nougat quarante-six (Maine & Vermont excepted). But when Franklin Roosevelt rose and began to speak, the levity ended. His first few words were spoken with his most studied earnestness. He was addressing the electorate far more than his Party, and the listeners in his presence soon toned down their convivial war whoops and whistling as they realized that here was one of the great orations...
...generations Congress has built flood control works without interference. The TVA decision to which the President referred, he admitted in press conference, was an injunction controlling only TVA's power activities, did not interrupt work on its dams. Said Raymond Moley: "I should welcome the opportunity to speak to the man of whom we heard Thursday evening, to the man who, in the sweat of his brow, piles sand bags on the levee at Cairo. And if I spoke to him I would say that there is no evidence whatsoever that the Supreme Court has ever placed obstacles...
...luncheon for delegates at the Continental Hotel, Stephen V. N. Powelson '38, undersecretary-general of the League, will speak on his experiences in Spain during the revolution. Raymond A. Yerks, secretary-general of the first Model League session, will also talk...
Following the six committee meetings in the afternoon, a banquet will be held in the evening, at which Payson S. Wild, professor of Government, will speak on "Problems of the League of Nations...
...Mordecal J. B. Ezekiel, economic adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture, will speak in Dunster House at 7 o'clock tonight. He has chosen "Government activities in creating and redistributing income and wealth" for the subject of his talk. From 8 to 8:30 o'clock will be a discussion period...