Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ayer will introduce W. T. Gardiner '14, the Governor of Maine, as presiding officer, and will start the proceedings by a speech of welcome to the team. One of the features of the evening is to be the showing of the first official moving pictures of the Harvard Yale game last fall. There will be also several speakers, including W. J. Bingham '16, Horween, Captain J. E. Barrett '30, and Captain-elect B. H. Ticknor...
Julius Klein, Hoover-trained Assistant Secretary of Commerce, stirred the meeting to loud applause with the next speech...
Unlike other dictators, Marshal Pilsudski's official position is merely that of Minister of War. Last week, invigorated by enforced vacation, the deputies resolutely carried out their purpose to convene, listened to a two-hour speech from Finance Minister Matuszewski, promptly next day ousted the government of Prime Minister Switalski by a vote of "No Confidence...
...Comrade Litvinov's real reply to Statesman Stimson came not by note, but in a gala speech before the Soviet central executive committee, to which he invited the whole Moscow diplomatic corps. Such a chance to make game of Messrs. Hoover and Stimson, whose Gibson had humiliated him last spring, might not soon come again, and Comrade Litvinov made the most of it. Stomachs quaked with mirth as he told in droll fashion how Statesman Stimson had called on all the 53 Kellogg Treaty nations to second his note, and concluded amid guffaws: ''I have just received...
With Paris, never his home town, Louis had no sympathy and less patience. Once he made a speech to some learned scholars of Paris' famed Sorbonne. Said he: "You are a bad lot. You lead bad lives, with the great fat trollops you keep!" With England he fought, when he thought he could win; made treaties, when he thought he could win that way. When the great Houses of Burgundy, Bourbon, Brittany, Lorraine, Artois, Alençon, Armagnac, Anjou leagued against him, he played them off one against the other, overcame them gradually by force, craft or bribery. When...