Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prominent members of the Harvard faculty will speak at a public memorial service for the late Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, to be held in Memorial Church, Harvard University, at 4.30 o'clock on Tuesday, December...
First real stop was the thriving little tobacco-market town of Harrodsburg, Ky. Forty thousand people massed to hear President Roosevelt speak from a replica of a log fort built by Daniel Boone, to hear him signalize Harrodsburg as the first permanent white settlement west of the Alleghenies. "We, too, are hewing out a commonwealth...which we hope will give to its people...the fulfillment of security, of freedom, of opportunity..." the President told an audience of "pioneers of 1934." He waved a little silk flag and seven girls pulled the veil off a huge stone frieze of pioneer figures...
...years ago these orders for social planning given at the White House would have produced a storm of criticism. Last week they produced nothing of the kind. Not only did General Electric's Gerard Swope speak up in approval but that stanch mouthpiece of conservative Republicanism, Ogden Mills, came out roundly next day in favor of unemployment reserves. In principle nearly all the great industrialists of the U. S. today favor the idea. Some have their fingers crossed about the form such plans may take, but all know how badly industry needs workers' purchasing power in times...
...reflection of Finland with its stark pine trees and the mists rising over its many black lakes. Sibelius' songs and piano music are relatively unimportant. In his first two symphonies his speech was chiefly of Finland but thereafter he seemed more determined to make absolute music which would speak for itself...
...chill into his warm feeling that Spain was more nearly in the right path than her more progressive neighbors. At Jerez de la Frontera he sipped sherry in cool warehouses, thought of Falstaff. whose favorite tipple was sherris sack. A tavern-keeper in Cadiz seemed to Traveler Tomlinson to speak for the nation when he said, with a shrug: "That revolution was nothing. It was not bloody. It was only like an orange, which falls when it is very ripe. No trouble, no trouble at all. The people of Cadiz, sir, are always reformers. They had been waiting...