Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program of which you speak is based upon a broad and just social and economic purpose. Such a purpose, it goes without saying, is not to destroy wealth, but to create a broader range of opportunity, to restrain the growth of unwholesome accumulations and to lay the burdens of government where they can best be carried...
...This basic program, however, has now reached substantial completion, and the breathing spell of which you speak is here -very decidedly...
Such a country, declared Baron Aloisi, is unfit to belong to the League of Nations. Next day, on telephonic orders from Benito Mussolini, the Italian delegates began a melodramatic routine of jumping up and marching out of the League Council chamber whenever Ethiopian delegates arose to speak. This move backfired, won extra courtesy from other Great Power statesmen for dusky Ethiopian Chief Delegate Bedjirond Tecla Hawariate. Once when Mr. Hawariate, Premier Laval and Captain Eden had to enter the same door, such a contest of bows began that it seemed none would get in. Finally the Ethiopian entered first, next...
...educated as a physician in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Dr. Martin retired on a pension after 29 years of duty in the Indian Medical Corps. About this time Ethiopia's great Emperor Menelik heard of Dr. Martin, summoned the distinguished Ethiopian to court, discovered with astonishment that he could speak not a word of any Ethiopian language, made him Minister of Education...
...reason in a world irrational and lost. Zena suddenly left him. In England he met suffragettes and careerists trying to be "modern," had a troubled love affair with a girl whose independence grew more & more neurotic. He met Mussolini when the future dictator was a Socialist editor, heard Jaures speak, listened to Balfour discuss European affairs. Although such contacts seem plausible enough for one of Julian's station in life, the famed historic figures seem even less real than Author Briffault's imaginary characters, who are often little more than mouthpieces for ideas and opinions. Julian took...