Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ethiopians, as they left Captain Eden and proceeded to blab his solicitude for Haile Selassie's dignity, knew that both the Credentials Committee and the Steering Committee of the Assembly had been secretly considering British formulas to bar His Majesty from speaking before the League. It was now or never, and His Majesty might not even have been permitted to address the League Assembly last week had not impetuous Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera blazed: "I am unwilling that there should even be discussion of his undoubted right to speak...
...with a perfect eye who never misses an opening." While Mother Schmeling, her son and daughter-in-law were lunching festively with Adolf Hitler, the Party's afternoon newsorgan Der Angriff printed a special edition explaining that Louis was defeated because before the fight Schmeling "was allowed to speak with the Realmleader and his Ministers, and from that moment Schmeling's will for victory was boundless...
...from 1763 to 1921." On the Wilhelmstrasse Ambassador Dodd likes to corner Adolf Hitler, lecture him in fluent German on the democratic ideas of his friend Woodrow Wilson. On the Midway Professor Dodd stuck to his lectern, shushed questions about Germany by observing: "I am not entirely free to speak. . . . But if men knew their history, they certainly would not do a great many things they...
...were sterilized after he used them. Last week Kagawa was in good health after a grueling itinerary during which he spoke before an estimated 750,000 people in 150 cities. About to sail for Oslo, Norway and the annual convention of the World Sunday School Association, he was to speak this week on a nationwide NBC hookup. His message: "I have learned to love the American people. . . . You have a wonderful future. . . . I ask your prayers for the maintenance of peace between this country and Japan. I bid farewell to you and I pray God's blessing upon...
...trustee is the only agency avowedly designed for the protection of security holders during the entire life of the security." Commenting on his findings last week, young Commissioner Douglas declared: "By & large, the corporate trustee has been sitting idly by while bondholders have been exploited. . . . And when I speak of the corporate trustees, I am speaking about some of the leading banks of the country, some of which served their proprietary interests in an issuing com pany before fiduciary interests were served...