Word: speech
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...start in politics at a convention-the Republican Convention of 1880, where he cast 36 successive votes for U. S. Grant-and that he was only 37 when Benjamin Harrison named him to the Federal bench. Placidly Judge Buffington read a passage from the Bible, made a little speech welcoming young Judge Biggs as a helper to "four...
Jewish women are forever holding meetings in New York City. New York's 54-year-old Mayor, short, swart Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, is forever making speeches. No one would have paid much attention to a speech he made last week before the Women's Division luncheon of the American Jewish Congress at the Hotel Astor if the German press had not burst out after it in a paroxysm of rage prodigious even for Naziland...
...German Government could not be. Secretary of State Cordell Hull apologized orally: "I very earnestly deprecate the utterances which have given offense. . . . They do not represent the attitude of this Government toward the German Government." Mr. Hull's words-"in this country, the right of freedom of speech is guaranteed by the Constitution to every citizen and is cherished as a part of the national heritage"-sounded like another veiled dig at the regimented Reich, but Germany let that pass and the incident was closed officially...
...Were treated by the Bishop of London to a speech in praise of such high-power inducements to begetting as Italy's Grand Fascist Council adopted last week and in denunciation of "miserable propaganda for birth control...
...that he will not operate in an exalted vacuum. When he sits down to elaborate Japanese foreign policy, he will take counsel with War Minister General Gen Sugiyama and Navy Minister Vice Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai as often as possible. Minister Sato's promise lent weight to his opening speech before the House of Peers in which he keynoted an astonishing reversal of Japanese policy. Said he: "China demands to be treated on an equal footing. This wish should be respected and past differences forgotten...