Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice that all had hoped to hear was stilled. No speaker stirred the conference as Franklin Roosevelt would have stirred it. But that was no great reflection on those who did speak. Like the war which had brought it forth, this was a conference without banners...
...draft originally scheduled to be held in Emerson D last night, has been postponed until a later undetermined date. Featuring the presidents of Tufts and M.I.T., Leonard Carmichael and Karl P. Compton, the forum had to be called off when President Compton was suddenly called to Washington to speak at a Senate hearing on the same subject of a post-war draft...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, Texas' shaggy-maned Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, rose to speak. He had just come from the White House, and he was soon to leave for the World Security conference at San Francisco. With Southern emotion, Tom Connally assured his fellow Senators that he and his seven colleagues on the U.S. delegation would do their utmost to bring back a document which would help preserve peace after World...
Gift of Tongues. Everywhere waiters, clerks and plain citizens who could speak foreign languages were suddenly popular. The Yellow Cab company announced that it had 70 drivers capable of conversing in alien tongues, including Assyrian. Correspondents would be offered every help in the way of workrooms, telegraph service, reference material-even a volunteer corps of ex-newspapermen ready and anxious to substitute as rewrite men for correspondents bowled over by the bottle. The city was prepared to offer them plenty of entertainment-cocktail parties, ferry and airplane rides, press cards good for squaring minor infractions...
...Sickle flag was flying on Lee Mansion, just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, when Molotov paused for a brief rest and brush-up after his flight from Moscow. Then Mr. Stettinius took him over to meet President Truman for the first time. As always, Molotov had to speak through an interpreter. When Stettinius and Molotov emerged, they were not smiling. From the President down, Mr. Molotov's U.S. hosts were prepared to look their guest in the eye, be tougher with him than they had ever been before. So were the British. It was, they had discovered...