Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harangues of the two leaders took the greater part of a whole day. The next day Field Marshal Simmons, finding that he had turned two pages of his speech together (by accident), brought out the lost page and read it to his eager followers. Then, not to omit any element of a proper epic, Chief of Staff Pat Harrison leapt upon the Democratic parapet and reviled the leaders of the enemy. Said...
...Senator from Utah objects to men reaching for a cigaret instead of candy. He made a speech about it. Now he wants the tariff raised on pipes. He wants to keep us from smoking cigarets and he wants to keep us from smoking pipes. No wonder he bows his head in shame...
...call this a 'Dictatorship' and proudly we acknowledge it!" Evidently Benito was only exercising once more his taste and genius for amateur theatricals. "For the 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity' of the French Revolution," he roared, "the Fascist Revolution substituted, 'Authority, Order. Justice'!" His great speech - heralded by the Fascist press for over a month along with rumors of "Empire" - turned out to be a little more than an especially fervent assurance that he will continue dictating. Observers turned their attention to the seven men whom the Prime Minister appointed, last week, to the Cabinet posts...
...Room 100 and Section C will hear about the same subject in Room 424. A talk on Marketing will be delivered to Section F in Room 332 at 12 o'clock and at 2 o'clock Sections B, C, and D will convene in Room 100 to hear a speech on Finance. At the same hour Section E will receive a lecture on Marketing in Room 122. Dean Donham will present the introductory problem to all the sections at 3 o'clock in Room...
Before James McKeen Cattell became a journalist* and a pundit honored among the cognoscenti, he was a teaching psychologist at Pennsylvania and Columbia universities. Apt was his presidency of the International Congress of Psychology at Yale last week and witty, despite length, his speech of welcome. Said he: "In so far as psychologists are concerned, America was [prior to the last 50 years] like Heaven, for there was not a damned soul there." Another Cattell truism: ''The motions of the solar system since its beginning are less complicated than the play of a child for a day." A Cattell social...