Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Pelliot comes to this country from the College de France where he has acquired a large reputation as a scholar in matters pertaining to Oriental art. He will speak again on Thursday afternoon in the Fogg Museum on "Discoveries of Colonel Koslov in Northern China...
...ought to be neighbors," said a resonant Scotch voice;-the voice of Ramsay Macdonald. While the Lord Mayor of London and many another beamed, Mr. Macdonald added: "and handle our affairs in a neighborly spirit." Having thus spoken, he put down the polished instrument into which he had been speaking. He had inaugurated the first commercial telephone service between London and Berlin. He had spoken well. Subsequent conversations were carried on at a three-minute rate equivalent to $4 during the day and $2.50 at night. Inquisitive persons asked: "To whom did Mr, Macdonald speak?" They were abashed to learn...
...Manhattan from Riverside, Conn., came last week Dr. W. E. Dentinger to speak, at a meeting of the National Life Conservation Society at the Hotel Astor, on "Musico-therapy." Just the thing, he said, for hysteria. Ladies in the audience were asked to close their eyes, relax, while a pianist concealed from view played soothingly, monotonously, Schubert's Serenade, Vice President Dawes' Melody in A. Good for cows, too, he said, makes them give more milk (see MEDICINE, p. 28), makes hens lay more eggs, helped Saul's insanity, cured Gladstone's rheumatism. Fourteen Manhattan hospitals...
Senator Owen, who had come to Boston to speak before the Foreign Policy Association on "Recent Disclosures as to the Origins of the World War," next turned to a discussion of some of the discoveries he had made in this connection. He said, "During the Senatorial investigation into the responsibility for the World War, which took place in 1923, a secret treaty between France and Russia, signed in 1892, was discovered. This treaty stipulated that the moment any one of the powers of the Triple Alliance should mobilize, for whatever cause, Russia and France should mobilize simultaneously without even communicating...
...Robert A. Warren, statistician of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, will speak tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, in Pierce 110, on the subject, "How a Statistician Functions in a Corporation". The talk is to be delivered to the Business School Club...