Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City Hall Plaza were hundreds of idlers. Baldwin's marchers halted and one began a speech. "Fellow workers-," he said, and a policeman arrested him. Baldwin and others protested. They too were arrested...
...last sentence refers to a recent speech by Mr. Kellogg before the American Society of International Law, wherein he declared that a nation signatory to the Kellogg Pact would not be deprived of the right to make war in self defense. This interpretation the British have now broadened to mean virtually that any war in which His Majesty's Government may choose to engage will be pro facto a war of self defense...
Said Prince Tokugawa in his brief speech of acceptance: "The peaceful diplomacy of the late Commodore Perry enabled the United States to accomplish more in opening up the Orient to trade than other nations could achieve by force." The Perry relics, promised Prince Tokugawa, will be cherished and displayed in the Imperial Museum at Tokyo...
That feat, which inscrutable "Boss" Irigoyen accomplished without making a single campaign speech, might well attract U. S. attention. Instead, last week, while the final Argentine ballots were being counted, eager U. S. citizens were snapping up in best selling quantities a book called The Road to Buenos Ayres.* The snappers neither knew nor cared about Argentina's President-Elect; but they eagerly scanned the new best seller because it tells how exceedingly women of the class called "White Slaves" flourish in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina...
...speech at the sesqui-centennial celebration at Andover last week President Coolidge brought out one important point which is frequently overlooked in many of the perennial discussions of the American educational system. That is that the principle of education for all, not long ago the guiding star of its development in this country, is still very young as human institutions go. At the time Andover was founded there was no provision for public education beyond what the scattered high schools could provide; for the colleges were very restricted in membership and mainly intended for theological students. By offering many...