Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minor Alpine spa, had referred briefly to the persistent belief of his Government that France's ability to pay her War debts is inevitably conditioned by Germany's payments of reparations to France. President Coolidge, at his first press conference of the week, made the Poincare speech the leading topic and reiterated his Administration's insistence that there can be no connection between what Germany owes France and what France owes the U. S. France's debt to the U. S. has already been scaled down once, by the Mellon-Berenger debt-funding agreement...
...Into conclave more secret than mysterious went Calvin Coolidge, his good friend Frank Waterman Stearns, and Nominee Hoover. When Mr. Hoover came out, he said: "I don't know that he [Mr. Coolidge] will make any political speeches, but he will make some public speeches." When Mr. Stearns came out, he said: "No human being, including myself, can tell three minutes ahead of time what he [Mr. Coolidge] is going to do." It was denied at the White House that Calvin Coolidge was planning to make a speech in Massachusetts. Nor had he decided whether to go to Northampton...
...modern symbol of the Jefferson ethos. Though she was far too discreet to lend herself overtly to the Smith campaign, Lady Astor became part and parcel of one of the strangest Presidential years in U. S. history?as her astute sister had doubtless planned she should. There were no speech-makings, no obvious handshakings, yet the overtone was unmistakable?Lady Astor home for a visit while her sister worked for "Al" Smith's election...
...speech of sapient logic and tart sarcasm Mr. MacDonald set forth Labor's view of the new Anglo-British "gentlemen's agreement" thus: "You can have either diplomacy with a cat well hidden in the bag and kept from mewing, or you can have a cat out of the bag and open to the inspection of everybody. This was not quite secret diplomacy, because Sir Austen Chamberlain (British Foreign Secretary) mewed and the newspapers mewed and are still mewing...
...Roosevelt will be introduced by his son James Roosevelt '30 now an undergraduate. The only two speeches will be the main speech by Mr. Roosevelt and the introduction...