Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reardon '32. R. H. Simonds '32 and A. A. Windecker '32, together with Arnold Isenberg '32, alternate, constitute the team which will face the Yale orators at New Haven. At the trials on April 5 Simonds was awarded the prize of $50 offered to the man making the best speech on the question which will be discussed tonight...
...outlined yesterday afternoon by Professor Winship in the Art Room of the Widener Library, in an informal talk. The gift by Morris Gray '77 of $30,000, the income from which was to be used for the purchase of contemporary poetry, was announced last month, and Professor Winship's speech yesterday was the first intimation of what general plan would be followed...
...General. Since his elevation to the Supreme Court, however, the Chief Justice has shunned such horseplaying performances lest the dignity of his court be impaired. This year he not only attended (presumably on assurances that the Supreme Court would be omitted from the fun-making), but also made a speech to the 400 guests which, under the rules of the club, may not be reported...
...impatiently awaited budget speech -the speech on which prophets have declared that Britain's general elections would turn-was delivered to a packed and eager House of Commons, last week, by the empire's most amazing statesman, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Journalism, dare-devil soldiering, music, history-book-scrivening,* politics, dabbing with oil paints - these are a few of the careers of Winston, who entered the War as Chief of the British Admiralty, switched to Secretary of War and later Air, emerged from the conflict as Colonial Secretary, became Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Charlotte. S. Baker, now president of the Board of Trustees, onetime principal. Spence is deserting its old buildings to move into nine Georgian floors farther uptown-still just off Fifth Avenue. Money must be raised. Barnard's Dean Gildersleeve was called in to make (gratis) a stirring campaign speech and alumnae last week received a rousing, well-printed money-appeal. Needed is $1,000,000 and: "Naturally . . . there must be a few gifts of $25,000, $50,000, and $100,000 and many of $5,000 and upwards. . . . To enable the school's friends to make such gifts...