Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anthony Eden, after staying with his sister on the French Riviera since his resignation as Foreign Secretary, quietly returned to London, last week made a little speech. "I am a convinced believer in democracy, yet it would be foolish, perhaps fatal, to the very survival of democracy to ignore the stupendous achievements realized under other forms of government!" cried Orator Eden, addressing the annual dinner of the Royal Society of St. George...
...House, although not a single hearty cheer was raised during the 98-minute Budget speech, promptly authorized the Chancellor's income, gasoline and tea taxes...
Quietly triumphant, Sir John Simon remarked to friends that once again he had, without throat discomfort, got through a long speech thanks to the mysterious ''elixir'' which Lady Simon always mixes up beforehand. Orator Sir John takes nips of this from a phial, and the potent elixir is gradually diluted as he sips water, about one glass every half hour...
...emergency relief centre, U. S. mission boards through their Committee on Relief in China last week began a drive for $5,000,000 for the next year's work.* From China the committee received proof that missionary labors tire now not unappreciated in high places. In a speech to missionaries in Hankow, Mme Chiang Kai-shek revealed that her husband, as a gesture of gratitude, had lifted an eleven-year ban upon compulsory religious courses in Chinese mission schools. Said she: "I am very glad to tell you that those who criticized you and criticized Christianity in years past...
Final excitement of the N. A. D. A. gathering was the annual banquet, graced this year by General Motors Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. In a long speech he made only one oblique reference to Gardner Withrow's charges...