Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sizer, summing up for Brown, gave a speech full of facts, which went far toward winning the audience. He offered the radio and newspaper as examples of advertising's contributions to our life; and recalled that many new inventions, such as four-wheel brakes, have been popularized by this professed evil...
...single-handed with the armies of the Tricolor. In one of his most elaborate and brilliant drawings, Gillray shows the thick-set Napoleon urging his fleet on; the chief interest, however, lies in the different reactions seen in the faces of the onlookers in England--Sheridan making a dramatic speech, and Fox hiding behind...
...Change from a previous Conservative quotation of 292 and were added to the then prevailing Liberal figure of 62. Thus the shrewd merchants of London's "City" showed what they fear will be the effect of Mr. Lloyd George's recent phenomenally daring Liberal keynote speech (TIME, March 11), in which he promised to find work for virtually all of Britain's 1,400,000 unemployed-and this without increasing taxes! Though the speech was branded at once as pure demagogy by disinterested editors throughout the U.S. and Europe, the London stock exchange figures coldly suggested, last...
John Williamson, quiet son of a clergy man, took his first job in Dayton as teacher of public speech and church music in the Central Reformed Theological Seminary. Soon he was engaged in choral work and for two years he directed simultaneously the music of seven churches. Then in 1920 he founded the Dayton West minster Choir, first made up of factory men and women, but later, because workers could not give the time to satisfy the Williamson ideal, of people who, like himself, wished to devote their lives to church and choral music. Today the choir of the Westminster...
...speech of P. J. W. Bove '29 was the nucleus of the Crimson's case. Bove produced statistics to prove that the death penalty does not prevent crime, but may actually stimulate it. Brooks Otis '29, after an effective rebuttal of his opponents' use of emotional appeals, went on to popularize and stress the arguments presented first by Bove...