Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that such a proposal should even be introduced into the House of Commons shows that some individuals in authority have at last realized that peace can only be obtained through more equal territorial adjustments. Twenty years ago it would have been political suicide for any Government official even to speak of colonial transfers as a possibility...
...clock tonight, the Circolo Italiano will hold a meeting in the Phillips Brooks House, which will be open to the public. Professor Gaetano Salvemini will speak in Italian on "La Posizione Geographica d'Italia nella Politica Internazionale Europa." There will also be chamber music by Corelli and Frescobaldi...
...Allan Mollison, famed British aviator and husband of famed British Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison. Sobered, fined $10, Captain Mollison explained in court next morning: "When I consumed three or four cocktails, more or less, it rather topped me. Not at all blotto, you understand, but just jingled, so to speak. I felt top hole but when a couple of your bobbies drove up alongside and suggested that I get in their bus I gladly accepted their invitation. I told them I was on my way to a night club, the Trocadero, and thought they were going to take me there...
Senior de Madariaga, first ambassador of the Republic of Spain to the United States and former newspaper man in London, will speak on the "Spirit of Europe" in the New Lecture Hall at 8' o'clock this evening...
...Honorable Mr. Henry P. Fletcher, in releasing his letters to the press, in his continued insistance that Mr. Paley is neither honest nor independent, (despite the fact that more Republicans than Democrats have spoken and are scheduled to speak in the future) has given up his claim to consideration as a gentleman and dubbed himself a politician pure and simple. Discontented with impartial treatment, he has reduced himself to the level of the meanest country mud slingers by maligning Columbia publicity because he could not get partial treatment...