Word: speech
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...opening the Red Cross campaign in New York Saturday evening, President Wilson spoke at the Metropolitan Opera House. While not confining his speech to the needs and aims of the Red Cross he included the following statements...
Extracts From President's Speech...
...Morize will be the guests of honor and principal speakers at the second Freshman smoker of the year, to be held in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock. Both will address the class on some subject connected with the war, Lieutenant Morize devoting his speech to an attempt to bring a realization of what the struggle must mean to American college...
George A. Clark, of White, Weld and Company, in an address before the members of the University Liberty Loan Committee last evening emphasized very strongly the necessity for college men to subscribe to this loan by saving from their allowances. His speech was supplemented by T. T. Scudder '11, of the Liberty Loan Committee of New England, who showed that if the men of the University followed Mr. Clark's advice they would be helping the Government to the limit of their ability...
Theodore Roosevelt has sounded the keynote of what should be every American's attitude in the war, when he declared recently that patriotic words are only worth while when they have as their basis patriotic actions. Speech is cheap. An insincere man can often utter as noble words as one of undoubted sincerity. High-sounding verbosity will never defeat Germany, nor will it go far toward arousing others of our nation to action. A single heroic death in France, the simple report, "Killed in action," is far more effective than the words of all the statesmen of America...