Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could avoid it. "I have agreed to make a few short speeches at private gatherings, and tonight I plan to address the Japan Society, but aside from that, my only statement about the League of Nations and Japan is that Japan wishes the League 'God speed.' I know I speak for the majority of my people when I say that Japan has only good wishes for the future of the League. The fact that we were obliged to withdraw from it does not mean that Japan has lost faith in the League...
...late the Vagabond has been a little appalled with the hoopla of anticipation called forth by the new beer bill. As a rule he eschews politics, but in a matter that comes so perilously close to home, he feels that he must speak out. To be brief, he considers the provision for 3.2 per cent peer the most piffling undersized insult ever thrown in the face of a great people, and he cannot understand the careless acclaim with which it has been accepted. He is driven to the mournful conclusion that Americans never had any discrimination in their taste...
...meetings of groups in Kirkland House are scheduled for this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Bernard DeVoto, instructor in English, will speak to the English group and J. H. Williams, professor of Money and banking, will discuss "The Consequences of Going of the Gold Standard" before the Economists...
Professor Elliott Smith, Master of Saybrook College at Yale, and Dean Meeks of the Yale Art School will be the guests of honor Thursday evening at the weekly Adams House dinner. Professor Smith will speak afterwards in the Upstairs Common Room on "The Residential College Plan at Yale...
...Buchmanism' alias the 'Oxford Group Movement' (shades of Pusey, Keble and Newman!*), alias 'First Century Christian Fellowship!' . . . summed up in 'For Sinners Only,' a book in which one searches in vain for grand distinctive doctrines. . . . If the General Assembly shall speak out . . . it will be one of the most useful and most memorable since the first meeting...