Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special invitation lecturer, Dr. Henry Goddard Leach, president of the American-Scandinavian Foundation and former editor of Forum magazine, will speak on "Scandinavian Classics" tonight at 8 o'clock in Emerson...
First in a series of distinguished speakers from the practical arena of world polities, Karl Gruber, Austrian representative to the United Nations, will speak at an open forum in New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock tonight...
...that they are true Christians. The bulk of the parties is made up of conscientious religious men & women who, through Nazi persecutions, suffered for their faith. They kept on believing, and paid for their spiritual stubbornness in concentration camps. . . . I was engaged as interpreter in your War Crimes Organization, speak five languages. . . . I used the opportunities I had to talk to the 'man in the street" in almost all the, countries west of Russia's sphere of influence. ... I also made friends with and frequently visited the D.P. camps in Germany. These Europeans had nothing, and their prospective...
...Assembly, U.S. Chief Delegate Warren Austin rose to answer Molotov. He mounted the rostrum with slow but agile dignity, and lowered his white-topped, ruddy-cheeked head in a courtly bow to the chairman. Then he began to speak slowly, deliberately, with imperturbable poise. He quickly made three things clear: 1) the U.S. would support Russia's disarmament proposal, provided that disarmament was internationally inspected; 2) the U.S. would support Russia's stand against abolishing the veto (though limiting its use was desirable); 3) the U.S. had no objections to revealing the size of its armies at home...
...Lake District. Many of the shepherds who followed her to the graveside knew that long, long ago her name had been Beatrix Potter, and that she had come among them from London, where she had written books for children. But they also recalled that anyone who had dared to speak the name of Potter-to say nothing of Peter Rabbit-in the presence of Mrs. Heelis had been shown the door with "stupefying rudeness...