Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt made a point of sleeping through Herr Hitler's speech at 6 a. m. E. S. T. So far as he was concerned, Hitler was "stopped" for the time being and the President of the U. S. was busy at home. He had a World's Fair to open, visiting royalty to entertain...
...Heaven's birthday (Hirohito was 38 last week) official Japan reserved comment on Senator Pittman's proposal, which would indeed be a one-two pair of punches to Japan's military economy. But the new direction of Japan's diplomacy was further clarified in a speech at Los Angeles last week by the man with whom Japan replaced dying Hirosi Saito last December...
...York's glamorous young Tom Dewey, currently conceded the lead for the G. 0. P.'s top nomination in 1940,has carefully refrained-while hobnobbing diligently in private with influential people from all over-from making a national speech on national issues. He and his friends know well that he is already well-known from coast to coast, by name & fame if not in inner structure. Had they needed proof of this, the University of Illinois last week supplied it. A board of politically-uninfected faculty members awarded to Tom Dewey, for "enrichment of American life and welfare...
...have no farewell speech to make, no apologia to give," John L. Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English and Senior Fellow in the Society of Fellows, told his last class yesterday as he concluded 20 years of teaching at Harvard...
...Hays is the ultimate in open-mindedness, perhaps, to an extent obnoxious to certain boosters of "Americanism." Though certainly not a Communist nor a Fascist, he respects their rights "not because they believe in freedom of speech, press and assemblage, but because I do." Perhaps, Mr. Hays has such faith in democracy that he is tempting the devil too far. But in the face of reaction that breeds upon Nazi and Red propaganda-frights, "Democracy Works" is refreshingly liberal, and a book that deserves attention...