Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speakers, will be held at 4 o'clock today in New Lecture Hall, it was announced last night by E. M. Howe 1L, debating team coach. Any man in the College or Engineering School is eligible for the team. Every candidate will be expected to prepare a five minute speech on the subject: "Resolved, That Al Smith is eminently qualified for the presidency." The following men have been retained: A. L. Roffa, ocC. J. W. P. Lorenzen '28, D. E. Scoll '28, F. M. Shea '29, Norman Winer '29, Saul Rosenweig '29, M. V. Anastos '30, M. U. Copeland...
...women voting. Fancy a dame of 1840 penning a note to a Mrs. Hubbard of Chesterton, Md.: "We have received your nice slogan and it wins the prize." In 1840, men were shouting in the torchlit streets: "Fifty-four-forty or fight!" In 1856, Republicans punned: "Free soil, free speech, free men and Fremont." A resounding, if somewhat vague, slogan was Theodore Roosevelt's cry in 1912: "We stand at Armageddon and fight for the Lord." This was far less successful than the gluttonous Republican shout of 1896: "McKinley and the full dinner pail!" And the 1916 Wilson motto...
Silence. Comrade Litvinov, concluding his speech, offers the Soviet proposal in the form of a motion. . . . Silence. . . . The motion is not seconded. . . . Litvinov stands for a long minute, lips pursed, brow furrowed, interrogative. . . .Then the League gentlemen vent their feelings by adjourning for luncheon...
...invitation to Signor Mussolini, requesting a personal conference with him, was the nub of a speech delivered, last week, to the Chamber of Deputies by Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. Said he: "Speaking for myself and for my country, we are friends of Italy. ... Despite the friction which is said to exist, I am firmly convinced that an accord can be made between the two countries. . . . During the War, Signor Mussolini was one of the greatest helpers in the collaboration of his country with France and I never can forget it. I am asked why I do not confer with...
Last of the Soong sisters is Meiling, Wellesley '15. Like her brother, T. V. Soong, Harvard '15, she has been closely identified with the Hankow Nationalist Government in which he was Finance Minister. In person she is charming, in mentality alert, in speech sometimes caustic. Observers, knowing her passionate Nationalist zeal, wondered if she married Chiang Kaishek, last week, with intent to rouse him from retirement to renewed leadership of a Nationalist military force...