Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty King George VI last week opened a new session of Parliament. In his Speech from the Throne in the House of Lords, His Majesty announced, among other things, that he and Queen Elizabeth were "happy to accept" the invitation of President Roosevelt to visit the U. S. during their scheduled trip to Canada next spring...
Last week Professor Cubberley & wife happily saw their building dedicated. Dr. Cubberley made no speech, refused to let the building be named for him. Said he: "After all, since I wrote and sold my books partly because of my capacity as professor here, we feel the University is entitled to the profits." Taking charge of the new building is Dr. Cubberley's own choice as his successor, 38-year-old Dean Grayson Neikirk Kefauver, who has already made Stanford's School of Education a famed centre of progressive education...
...Tablet Dr. Scanlan reported that Professor Arnold "urged an established church in the U. S. and sought to dictate what type of religion the churches should teach. It was a Hitler gesture." In the issue before that, Editor Scanlan had printed the evidence for his extraordinary belief-a speech by Thurman Arnold in which that able lawyer, using imagery drawn from his widely-quoted book. The Folklore of Capitalism, had said...
...York World's Fair grounds at Flushing Meadow Park, L. I., Dr. Wralter O. Robinson of Brooklyn's St. John's University held the first of a series of classes for Fair attendants in "pleasing and effective speech." His aim: "It is not our purpose to make orators of these people, but rather to teach all who shall have a share in publicizing the World's Fair to speak effectively in language as nearly as possible free from defects...
...Baltimore, Ambrose J. Kennedy, Democratic candidate for U. S. Representative from Maryland, was making a political speech in the Thomas Jefferson Club's hall, which has a seating capacity of 200. One hundred and ninety-nine seats were filled. Suddenly a heavy electric light globe plopped down from the ceiling, hit the one vacant seat...