Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modest Lincoln Day speech free from the blatant denunciations that too often feature attacks on the New Deal, Governor George D. Aiken of Vermont offered much sensible advice to his own party. And when he was through, he had made abundantly clear the reasons for its failure...
...wild on the front page. In the uproar over foreign policy (see col. 2) he took no visible part. With vocal Congressmen trying desperately to force him to redefine his stand, the closest approach to a statement on foreign policy the President made last week was a little speech made to a visiting group of Protestant ministers. The President, an Episcopal warden, said...
...week to Germany and the trial of Pastor Niemoeller. The issues at stake are those for which civilized people have been fighting for centuries. But this is a conflict of moral as well as political principles. Pastor Niemoeller is defending not only the rights of religious liberty and free speech, but also the fundamental tenets of Christianity as opposed to the doctrines of the Nazi creed. Only a firm stand by all who call themselves Christians can now save the central principles of the Christian Church. In the light of recent developments in Nazi policy, the action of the Berlin...
...next time he met him in the Yard, he bowed, smiled profusely, and set about reeling off his memorized speech, involving the utmost profanity regarding the professor, his course, his ancestry, Harvard and the world in general. "I compliment you on your enterprise in picking up so many English idioms outside of your regular work," replied the professor, and the student left thinking what a good impression he had made...
...rose and gave a long speech, wherein be waved his arms and cried and boasted, so that the people, fearing, granted him a rocket car. Smiling, Eng invited the neighbors living one mile about him to sign the paper which said they could drive the car. They did, and there was much laughter and teasing, and many took turns driving...