Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John D. Black, Lee Professor of Economics, and John K. Galbraith, lecturer in Economics, will also speak...
...blue Ford and its matching two-ton trailer cruised slowly through Cameron, S.C., past the white frame houses set amid old oaks and magnolias, past the new cotton gin walled with tight-packed bales. From the trailer, a loudspeaker intoned metallically: "Your Congressman, Hugo Sims, will speak to you in an hour from now . . . Congressman Sims brings his office to you to report, to talk over your problems...
...Sulphur Springs, where he spent a weekend as guest of Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Nehru explained some things he had learned. At a brilliant dinner (among the guests: Banker Winthrop Aldrich, Railroader Robert Young, Publisher Eugene Meyer), Johnson introduced Nehru as "a man of rare truth." Nehru rose to speak, as usual seeming only to be thinking out loud. "I am a child of the mountains . . ." he said. "Sometimes you are on the mountaintops and can see the fields and the sun. Then, often enough, you are in the valley, but you can see the mountaintop. That is enough...
...that they had to carry passes. But in the parley, the aroused strikers did not sit down, in the traditional gesture of humility, when the whites addressed them. It caused one police official to complain: "I have never yet been to a meeting where the natives stand when you speak to them. It's most disrespectful...
...unpredictable. On one of her rare appearances without the company, she told Helpmann she would positively not make a speech at the supper given in her honor after a command performance in Copenhagen. After Helpmann had tactfully told the guests that "Miss Fonteyn is too moved to speak," she stood up and talked for six minutes. She loves to jitterbug. Helpmann says that after dancing with her in ballet for 14 years, he only really got to know her after jitterbugging with her until dawn one time last year...