Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Learned Lawyer Roscoe Pound, dean of Harvard's law school, pounded the administration heavily last week in a speech in Manhattan on its selection of Lawyers Roberts and Pomerene to conduct some of the cases against Fall and Sinclair. The Pound point was that while the Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene are able enough as chancery lawyers and did well in the civil suits against Sinclair, they are no great shakes as criminal lawyers. From the criminal charges against them Sinclair and Fall have after long delays and many a slip comfortably escaped so far. Said Dean Pound: "Did Sinclair...
...Majesty strode to the Throne. His train stretched behind him, his crown flashed. Then he turned and faced his Ministers and the Lords of his Realm. The Commons were summoned and appeared. All was in readiness for the King to open Parliament with his Speech from the Throne...
...major event of Turkey's birthday was the broadcasting of a speech by Mustafa Kemal Pasha to every Turkish city and town and to hundreds of villages. Attempts at a similar broadcast last year failed miserably. The transmitter broke down but a few hours after "The Victorious" one had launched into the preface of his famed and unprecedented Seven-Day Speech (TIME...
Shaker Giovanni Giuriati is a somewhat insignificant minion of Dictator Mussolini. But Shaker André Tardieu is one of the ablest, most forthright and least blatantly famed statesmen of France. Deftly M. Tardieu turned his complimentary speech to Signer Giuriati into an inoffensive but significant hint. Italy and France might differ, he said, in their political concepts and in the objects of their foreign policy; but surely they ought to unite in more and more projects of commercial benefit, such as this railway. "I hail these strong bands of steel," cried André Tardieu in emotional peroration...
...Palo Alto living room became a loud caucus of triumph. John Philip Sousa's band blared its best. The President-elect was sitting down at the moment. He did not get up at once but sat, eyes downcast, embarrassed, rubbing his forehead with his fingertips. They wanted a speech. "Not tonight," he said. Outside the house, a phalanx of Stanford University undergraduates yelled persistently. The President-elect reluctantly took his way to the terraced roof of his house, under the California stars. Tears glistened on his cheeks as he looked down on that fragment of the electorate. He said...