Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piles of stones in order to command a better view. A choir, composed of picked members of the University Glee Club and the Chapel Choir, opened the ceremonies with the anthem. "A mighty fortress is our God." President Lowell then mounted the rostrum and made the introductory speech...
...reporter who covered the Roosevelt speech in Gainesville on March 23, as reported in your April 4 issue is a liar...
Believing that you would not wilfully misinterpret, may I call [the following] to your attention in this week's TIME: You refer to the "President's curt speech" heard by a "tobacco-chewing crowd," etc. The crowd was NOT tobacco-chewing, and it applauded the speech. The honor of the President's visit was thoroughly appreciated. Many of the 50,000 crowd had motored miles that morning to be present and to see the President. Brenau College students and faculty in the foreground can attest what I say. President Pearce of Brenau College praised the speech without...
...Republicans, with 91 delegates, elected as President Republican Chief Judge Frederick Evan Crane of the State Court of Appeals. To strike the proper non-partisan keynote, the convention then unanimously elected as Honorary President happy Democrat Alfred Emanuel Smith, a veteran of the 1915 convention. After a learned speech by President Crane on the virtues of democracy, the delegates, who will receive a $2,500 salary for their streamlining and hope to finish it by summer, recessed. Major streamlines suggested: a unicameral Legislature; replacing the present Department of Law under an elected Attorney-General by a department of justice under...
...hearty epithet frequently on the lips of the late King George V in private- although always eschewed by the English in public-was "bloody," and this Ambassador Kennedy has now adopted at London into his pungent speech. Last week, just before going down with Mrs. Kennedy to Windsor Castle, the Ambassador called in correspondents, exploded vehemently against the presentation at Court of socialite U. S. women. Cried he: "I believe this policy is undemocratic and un-American...