Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many of the answers emphasize the fact that censorship is not only contrary to American ideals of free speech and a free press, but also that censorship is bad psychology and bad educational policy. I have had an opportunity not long since to test the psychological effect of censorship in the case of a "razz" sheet published by the George Washington University chapter of Pi Delta Upsilon, the national honorary journalistic fraternity...
...right to open a school for boys at Andover, Mass. Horseman Paul Revere designed a silver seal (finis origine pendet) for the school; and 13 boys began to study under Eliphat Pearson, whom they dubbed "Elephant." In 1789, President George Washington came to Andover to make a speech; later eight of his nephews and grandnephews went to school there...
...President Coolidge's speech was many a ringing sentence such as: "Our doctrine of equality and liberty of humanity and charity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood...
...Boys" of Andover applauded the President's speech. They had walked in the ways of the world and had returned to do honor to Andover. Among them were Thomas Cochran, partner in J. P. Morgan and Company; Arthur Stanley Pease, president of Amherst College; Walter Prichard Eaton, dramatic critic, who told in verse about his first arrival at Andover "moist with maternal tears...
...reproof of U. S. shipping conditions was the speech of Baron Kylsant, at the annual meeting of the White Star Line, Ltd. in London last week. Two years ago he bought the 25 White Star Line ships from the most important U. S. shipping enterprise, J. P. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine Co. for ?7,000,000 (TIME, May 17, 1926, et seq.). Last year he predicted a profitable year for the White Star Line under British ownership...