Word: speech
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Owing to illness Ex-Gov. Brackett was unable to be present, and Hon. Jos. H, Walker took his place. Mr. Walker was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the large flag which dropped immediately at the close of Mr. Guilds speech, being too near the platform. Mr. Walker spoke in the interests of the poorer classes in Harvard College, and as his speech progressed brought forward a long array of figures to prove how necessary the protective tariff is from the manufacturers standpoint...
...COOK.Best general references: Labor's Cyclopaedia, I, 204-222; F. A. Walker, 'Money,' 481; Comptroller's of the Currency Reports, 1875, 1876, 1878, 1888, 1889; Royall, Andrew Jackson and the U. S. Bank, 34; Richardson, National Banks; Harrison, Letter of Acceptance in daily papers, Sept. 5, 1892; McKinley, Speech in Boston Herald...
...like them, achieved remarkable success. Mr. Jas. B. Carroll, of Springfield, the Democratic candidate for Lieut. Governor, will make the fourth speaker. Graduating at the head of his class at Holy Cross in '77, he has since achieved much success as a lawyer and orator. He made the speech of the evening at the last Democratic convention in Boston. What such men have to say concerning the attitude of college men on the pending national contest should be well worth hearing...
Best references: No. Amer. Rev. CLV. Sept., 1892; Speech of Sen. Palmer, Cong. Rec., 52d Cong., 1st session, p. 6516; R. T. Ely, Labor Movement in America, ch. IV; Geo. Howell, Conflicts of Labor and Capital, ch. II. pt. v. p. 116, ch. III, p. 147; J. D. Weells, Labor Differences and their Settlement, (Economic Tract...
...Trafford '93, George C. Lee Jr., '94, R. W. Emmons 2nd '95, N. T. Robb '93, and Hewitt Morgan '94. Tickets will be given to Harvard men who ask for them. The announcement that Major Higginson would deliver an address needs correction. Major Higginson was unwilling to make a speech, but he has kindly consented to read selections appropriate to the occasion...