Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicholas Murray Butler, Wet, made a speech a few weeks ago to an institute of arts and sciences at Columbia University, of which he is the hearty, eloquent president. Institutes of arts and sciences are gatherings at which subjects like Assyrian pottery, television, marine fossils or pure poetry may appropriately be discussed, on their artistic or scientific merits...
...Leighton Stuart, President of Yenching University, near Pekin, China, will be the speaker at the luncheon of the Liberal Club at 1.30 o'clock today. The general topic of his speech will be "China...
Then U. S. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis made a speech. Excerpts...
Hour after hour the procession wended its way through the square. A short speech by M. Kalinin was the signal for the singing of the International, which was taken up by the miles of parading populace. Simultaneously, the Kremlin*guns roared salvos of blank shells for six minutes, their blue smoke spiraling upwards around the pinnacles of St. Basil's Church and over the tower of the Spasski Gate...
...writing brilliant revolutionary articles in the Novy Mir, New York Russian language newspaper. It is possible, however, that Trotsky earned much more, for his coming was advertised widely among the radicals, who organized many a reception for him and, he, brilliant as always, made many a scintillating speech...