Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What has been the result of the almost unbelievable sacrifices of the great War?" asked General Pershing, keynoted his dedication speech with this reply, "The answer is that our liberty has been preserved, democracy survived as a fundamental structure of government, and civilization is unchanged...
...15th president of Yale. In Latin, President Seymour replied. This 200-year-old ritual completed, Historian Seymour mounted the pulpit, warned that "Yale must be vigilantly self-critical . . . must beware of the peril of isolation," pledged "absolute intellectual freedom," exhorted Yalemen: "The duty of protecting freedom of thought and speech is the more compelling in these days when the liberal spirit in the world at large is in deadly peril. Every student at Yale should be impressed with the conviction that only through the spread of the liberal attitude in life can the nation find protection from an obscurantist reaction...
...with the Tribune Tower looming high on the left,* keeps on to wind around swank Gold Coast's apartments and the Drake Hotel, then north once more on the express highway of Lake Shore Drive. It was at the Chicago River that President Roosevelt paused to make his speech and it was there that the last important link was last week completed at a cost of $11,500,000, $2,324,881 of which was contributed by Mr. Roosevelt...
...Boston. Lawyer Perkins, graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1894, became in 1906 the youngest Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. During the World War he was assistant Secretary of War in charge of organizing tue munitions industry, was chief counsel to the War Industries Board. Lawyer Perkins' speech was slangy. At a meeting of the Corporation, the late President Eliot once requested: "Will someone kindly translate Mr. Perkins' remarks into English so that I may understand them...
...ambulances for Madrid, followed soon after (with Joris Ivens, John Ferno, John Dos Passos) to film The Spanish Earth. Returning last June to soundtrack his commentary on the film, he paused long enough to pronounce before the League of American Writers, in his first public speech, a scathing indictment of Fascism, to collect at one private showing of the film in Hollywood $15,000 for Loyalist aid. Though still less "proletarian" than "pro-underdog," this awakened political consciousness has undoubtedly broadened his field of interest, added welcome contemporaneity to his literary life. Last August he was off to Spain again...