Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to get the full cooperation, on an equal basis, of the United States Government in an international conflict," added Mr. Eden, "I would travel not only from Geneva to Brussels but from Melbourne to Alaska!" To this speech the House responded with the loudest cheers it has ever given Secretary Eden...
Considering the state that this nation and the world is in today and the fact that Mr. Landon was discussing national and international problems in his speech of Oct. 19, it seemed very petty and inconsequential to refer to his pronunciation in the reporting of that speech (TIME, Nov. 1). But since General Johnson and TIME have begun it: Does it sound any worse for Mr. Landon to mispronounce the word "Roosevelt" than for Mr. Roosevelt to mispronounce the word "government," a word which he uses continually in his "fireside chats" and invariably pronounces "govermunt;" for Mr. Landon...
...Chicago speech of President Roosevelt, with its use of the word "quarantine" in speaking against "world lawlessness" (TIME, Oct. 18), brought together around green tables in the Palais des Academies in Brussels last week representatives of the U. S., Britain, France, Russia, China, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and Belgium, with moon-faced Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak holding the gavel...
...Brussels, President Roosevelt's perennial Ambassador-at-Large, grey & graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis, was encouraged by all to make the first speech at the Conference. He did so. If the President and Mr. Davis had cared to take Mr. Eden at his solemn word, they could have proposed vigorous action to "quarantine world lawlessness," and the United Kingdom would have been bound to follow in giving the Conference a shove in that direction. Instead, the keynote struck by Ambassador Davis was: "We come to this Conference to study with our colleagues the problems which concern...
Grantland Rice, prominent sports writer who gives a radio talk every Friday night, last night featured his speech by selecting Harvard and Dartmouth as the two best-coached teams in the East. Dick Harlow of the Crimson, and Earl Blaik of the Green fall heir to the honors...