Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nominating speeches will be five minutes long each, while seconding speches will be still more limited. The leading candidates, Smith, Ritchie, Reed. Walsh, and Baker, will be put in nomination in the convention early this evening. Other candidates they be nominated, and many favorite sons not officially nominated are expected to receive votes. These include Senator Dill of Washington and Huston Thompson of Colorado, both of whom have spoken before the Harvard Democratic Club this year. Senator Walsh of Montana won many supporters through the speech he delivered in Boston under the auspices of the club a month...
Representative Thaddeus Campbell Sweet of New York telephoned Bolling Field one afternoon last week and asked Lieutenant Bushrod Hoppin, U. S. A., to fly him to Oswego, N. Y., where he was to make a speech. Such calls from Congressmen are encouraged by the War and Navy Departments. Lieut. Hoppin did not get the Representative's name very clearly but proceeded at once with preparations. They took off after breakfast next morning, in a new Army observation plane. By late-luncheon time, the plane was a wreck and Representative Sweet was dead...
Ostensibly his pungent speech of three hours' duration served merely to "open" (present) the Empire Budget for 1928. Actually he was trumpeting abroad a new political program, on the basis of which his party (Conservative) plans to appeal to the electorate...
...secure economically, feel that by simply belonging to the Rotary Club, we are discharging our obligations. Rotary was never meant to be a smoke screen behind which we could hide from our civic duties. . . . Adulation for the word 'service' has become almost nauseating. . . ." This brief brave speech was made in Asbury Park, N. J., by the second vice president of Rotary International, whose name is Leonard T. Skeggs. The president of Rotary International is Arthur H. Sapp...
...North Hysterica just as her mother's manuscript body was being cruelly contested by the book-collectors. Once in the Delighted States, by way of the stem of a drinking glass, Alice Jr. revolved with the Rotarians round a luncheon table, but when she refused to make a speech the Rotarian next to her feared the girl was moody: "That comes from being too subjunctive and makes the situation tense." Alice thereupon recited a poem for them. Suddenly her entire audience scuttled and scampered off to escape the American Mercurial twins, Twaddle-dum and Twiddle-dee, now that...