Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reached for. It cannot just be wished for. It cannot just be waited for. We have now made known our willingness to attend a conference of the parties to the Nine-Power Treaty of 1922 [see p. 18]. . . -" Speaking with a slow and emphatic assurance, the President ended his speech with a well-timed reference to the time when he was Woodrow Wilson's Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
...Onetime Braintruster, Raymond Moley advanced the hypothesis that the sentiments in Franklin Roosevelt's Chicago speech had been supplied largely by William Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France. Ambassador Bullitt did indeed confer with the President before the fireside chat. Then, before sailing for Europe, Ambassador Bullitt-who as a matter of fact indicated surprise when he read the "quarantine" passage in the President's Chicago speech after it had been mimeographed at the State Department-flatly contradicted Editor Moley's story to the press...
...Diplomatica: "Absolutely fantastic figures have been given and continue to be given with the evident purpose of creating a war psychosis. It is scandalous that a former head of the British Government like Lloyd George, who in view of his age should advise seriousness and prudence, in a recent speech tossed to his audience hare-brained figures. . . ." Urgent notes went to Rome inviting the Fascist Government to discuss "immediate" withdrawal of foreign volunteers at a three-power conference. Behind this were veiled Franco-British threats of force, varying from opening the Catalan frontier for munitions and volunteers from France...
...Landon, whom some will remember as the Republican candidate for President in 1936, made a speech last Tuesday night. Like most political addresses, it contained statements better left unsaid, and omitted things which should have been included. But from it may be drawn two major conclusions regarding the American political scene in the recent past and near future...
Headlining the annual Varsity Club dinner to be held tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock in the Club House will be a speech by President James B. Conant...