Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bloemhof in the Transvaal onetime premier of the Union of South Africa, General Jan Christian Smuts, arose to make a political speech...
Last week the phrase received a new twist: Mustafa Kemal Pasha, president of the Turkish Republic, announced his intention of delivering, on October 15, 16, 17, 18, a 400,000-word* speech over the radio reviewing in detail the history of the Nationalist government...
...text of the speech covers 1,200 pages, most of which will be read in the National Assembly before a microphone by the president himself. Many secretaries will be on hand, however, to aid him if he should become too hoarse and all official documents will be read by them...
Every year at 11:30 on New Year's Eve, the members gather. A representative actor reads Booth's dedication speech, which ends close to the stroke of midnight. At that stroke Walter Oettel, Booth's dresser in the theatre, now the superintendent of the club, passes a cup in which the members drink the health of this hale old tradition...
...This was part of a speech by Mr. Sloan delivered before the automobile editors of the U. S. gathered at the General Motors proving grounds in Milford, Mich., as guests of the corporation. Later he informed the editors that he hoped the corporation would show earnings for the second half of 1927 as great, if not even greater, than for the second half of 1926. If this hope is fulfilled, G. M. C. will show net profits of $222,195,715 as against $186,231,182 for 1926. It is the liberal policy of the directors to distribute half...