Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt luck" at Amarillo, Tex. The evening he stopped to speak there, in the middle of the "Dust Bowl," rain poured down...
Sirs: . . " You speak of the $1,000 a mile charge made by the Cooperative for stringing its lines. You say that "private utilities had been charging customers from $1,500 to $2,500 a mile for stringing lines to their doors." So far as Detroit Edison Co. is concerned, their rate book shows that they charge $500 per mile for stringing the lines to their customers. If the customers connect to the line at the time it is strung, each customer receives a rebate of $100. If, then, there are five customers in any mile, the line-stringing costs...
...long face lengthened further when he came upon an artist in the Public Library earnestly measuring certain unfilled panels on the third floor. The artist told him that the Public Works Art Project would like to fill these spaces with some murals. Mr. Stokes said pessimistically that he would speak to the board...
...super-ballet was preparing for a somewhat delayed London opening, it leaked out that the constellations of Universal's new universe had collided. De Basil, who had not personally signed any agreement with Universal, denied flatly that any merger had taken place, claimed that he could not speak English and had not understood the terms of Universal's proposal. Universal Art promptly sued de Basil, only to find, in court, that de Basil no longer owned the scenery and production rights of the de Basil Ballet, but had sold them to a new organization, Educational Ballets...
...through her territory in event of war, it did not preclude the possibility that Chancellor Hitler may one day gobble the nation whole. There are some 3,000,000 Germans, "racial comrades" of the Führer, within the nation's boundaries. Fully three-fourths of the population speak German. Reich Field Marshal Göring recently published in his National Zeitung a map of Greater Germany, prepared by Reich propagandists for school use, which pictured practically the whole of Switzerland as belonging to the Reich. The Swiss frontier is "the boundary of the internal separation of the German...