Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace. Herr Hitler has rarely delivered a worse speech. It was weak, unconvincing, rambling, discursive, formless. Never had Hitler seemed less sure of himself. He worked up no climaxes. He asserted that in seizing Czecho-Slovakia he had performed a "service for peace" and announced that the next Nazi Congress at Nürnberg would be called the "Party Congress of Peace." His bitterest remarks were directed at Britain...
...forms of pressure which had been brought to bear on President Lebrun. who some time ago expressed his reluctance to run for a second seven-year term. This week, just four days before the election, he bucked up enough to announce that he would run again. In a speech in Montélimar. in the Rhone valley, at ceremonies memorializing France's seventh President (1899-1906). Emile Loubet, President Lebrun quoted a famous Loubet statement: "I didn't come here [into office] for my pleasure. I don't intend to clear out for the pleasure of others...
...died. Last week, in India, the Maharaja announced that, except for abdication, he had just followed the lead of his father and of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor-married an American woman. Marguerite Branyen. The words the Maharaja chose were strangely reminiscent of Edward VIII's famous last speech as King...
...ever. Five companies cooperated in the research which produced it-Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Monsanto Chemical, Libbey-Owens-Ford, Pittsburgh Plate Glass. Announced cost: $6,000.000. Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald, an old motormaker (Moons) but a notably inexpert motorist, made a speech. A congratulatory telegram arrived from Franklin Roosevelt...
...second rate heretic" does not apply to Mr. Hicks, who is indisputably of the first calibre. Certainly his views are now "inadequately represented" in the English department, and he can be justly called a "thoughtful rebel," a type of scholar whom President Conant declared essential to education in a speech at Amherst four years ago. If this university is to be consistent with the most profound recent expression of its liberal attitude it should make Mr. Hicks a member of its staff...