Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owen D. Young, board chairman of the General Electric Co., a vast open-shop organization, did not speak in person. President Green quoted him; quoted from a speech Mr. Young once made at Harvard, when Mr. Young said: "Slowly we are learning that low wages for labor do not mean high profits for capital. What we need to know is the limits within which men may work with zest, spirit and pride of accomplishment." Just as Mr. Young's speech had originally startled old-fashioned employers, by its proximity to Labor doctrine, so did the quotation of Mr. Young...
Prediction. Said 93-year-old Chauncey Mitchell Depew last week: ". . . With a ringing speech by some leading Republican, I anticipate there will be a stampede, followed by a unanimous call to Mr. Coolidge to accept a renomination. I don't believe any human being could resist such a draft.... If I remember correctly I am the only man twice invited by acclamation to address a Republican National Convention, and without a time limit. I'd like to do it once more...
...British Legion gave a luncheon with the Prince of Wales, in double-breasted grey suit, as toastmaster. The Prince talked quietly with Commander Savage and Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton until a red-coated attendant rapped the gavel. Then he lifted his glass to "The King!" made a short speech and raised his glass again "To the President of the United States." Earl Haig, British commander-in-chief in the War, recalled incidents of U. S. gallantry. Lady Edward Spencer Churchill and Mrs. Adaline Wright Macauley spoke for their respective Legion Auxiliaries...
...speechmaking began along about the fifth or sixth course, as might have been expected; but not until nine or ten others had spoken did Aubrey Lyles arise to deliver the speech for which the evening was long to be remembered...
Each man retained is to bring to the trials at 7 o'clock Monday night in the New Lecture Hall a written outline of his speech as he intends to deliver it. Speeches, are to be seven minutes in length, and will be presented on the negative side of the question by J. L. Beauchamp Jr. '28, Trevor Grimm '29, F. W. Lorenzen '28, B. A. Otis '29, Saul Rosenzweig '29, and W. E. Swigert...