Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sensation of the Moscow week, apart from the unprecedented behavior of Bolshevik bigwigs who never before have attended Embassy functions, was an abnormally candid speech "made privately" to 700 Soviet industrial managers by the newly appointed Commissar of Heavy Industry Valery I. Mezhlauk (TIME, March 8). Since 700 people are too many to keep Quiet, it was soon learned that Comrade Mezhlauk had dropped some strong hints as to the next Moscow Old Bolshevik trial, intimating that the Ogpu's efforts to wring confessions are being "strenuously resisted" by the two star prisoners, onetime Soviet Premier Alexei Rykov...
...deeply under Stalin's skin has penetrated world-wide suspicion of the Old Bolshevik trials as frame-ups, the Dictator disclosed in a slashing speech delivered secretly to Moscow bigwigs on March 3 and broadcast last week by electrical transcription to all Russia. "It is a rotten theory to say the Trotskyists do not have reserves in the Soviet Union among the remnants of the exploiting classes and among foreign traitors!" came Stalin's voice off the phonograph record. The U. S. translator of Trotsky's works, Max Eastman, was termed by Stalin "a notorious swindler...
...Gloro there are 18 suffix forms to denote different parts of speech, verb tenses, case endings. There are no other rules of grammar. It looks and sounds even more like a hodge-podge of Latin, Italian and Spanish than that more famed lingua franca, Esperanto, which it considerably resembles. Its roots were chosen with great care, however, from various languages, especially English. Dr. Talmey particularly tried to incorporate those national words which have no one-word equivalents in other languages and are therefore frequently borrowed, becoming quasi-international. In English such words are snob, fad, aloof, to glance, to bluff...
...centenary of the birth of Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody (TIME, Aug. 17), U. S. Presbyterians next laid plans to recall the fact that Presbyterian foreign missions were instituted a century ago. From this spring to next autumn the centenary will be celebrated with a pageant, a play, many a speech and a broadcast dinner. To the Centennial Council it seemed that a special hymn was needed for their occasion and for one they offered $50. Last week three Presbyterian judges announced the winner from among 200 entries. Title: God of Years, Thy Love Hath Led Us, by Dr. Jay Glover...
Last week Commissioner Douglas again journeyed to Manhattan to make a speech, this time to the well-heeled members of the Bond Club. Again he spoke his mind "unofficially" but with almost savage candor. Because his subject was broader, his suggestions more radical and, more important, because he is a likely candidate for the SEChairmanship after James McCauley Landis retires next summer, his Bond Club speech reverberated in every banking house in the land. For the 38-year-old onetime Yale law professor proposed nothing less than a complete remaking of the country's investment business. Said he: "Today...