Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. *After news of how Hitler out-talked Simon & Eden began to excite world mirth, an irate official of the Wilhelmstrasse declared, "There was no 'Hitler monolog.' The conversations lasted for eight hours and never at any time did the Leader speak uninterruptedly for more than 20 minutes...
...Hitler! My friends, just as Christ was once mocked, so certain haughty gentlemen used to mock our Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. They mocked him as a 'house painter,' as a 'laborer,' but they mock him no longer. Just as 2,000 years ago Christ began to speak in a small circle to poor, simple people while the proud and the rich and the noble stayed away, just so the same thing has repeated itself in our time. Simple men with no college education rule the Fatherland today. Not long ago a certain professor whom you all know...
...Ordnance Department, view an exhibit of armament in Reyburn Plaza opposite the City Hall. By the time the Secretary's visit was over he had been made thoroughly conscious of militant pacifism as practiced by Philadelphia Quakers. When he arrived at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel to speak at a dinner, he found young Quakers picketing the street, bearing placards such as: WAR IS ALWAYS WRONG and ARMAMENTS REPRESENT DEATH TO YOU BUT DIVIDENDS TO THE PRIVATE FIRMS. When, in Reyburn Plaza, Mr. Dern made a brief speech and played at aiming a 3-in. anti-aircraft gun, Quakers distributed...
...school in the Caucasus he learned that no Mohammedan could enter the Russia's Imperial Naval Academy. His passionate desire to understand the difference between the Moslem and Christian worlds won him two doctorates, taught him to speak, in addition to his native Turkish, Russian, Persian, German, French, English. Before going to Detroit he had been curator of Oriental art at National museums in Vienna and Istanbul. In 1931 he, like Dr. Pope, went to work on the second great exhibition of Persian art in London...
Frederick deW. Bolman, Jr. '35, president of the Debating Council and Thomas H. Quinn '36 will speak in the radio debate against the University of Hawaii when the two teams take the air Saturday on the subject: "Resolved, That Hawaii be admitted to the Union as a state," it was announced last night...