Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seniors contested for the post, whose winner will give a speech at the Commencement exercises on June 23. Announcement of the trials was made two weeks before the Spring vacation and ten men applied...
James H. Means, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, who aroused a storm of comment on April 6 when he described the "behavior of the American Medical Association" as "political" said yesterday he would "sit tight" on his speech...
After hearing three lessons, lasting less than 15 minutes, on the advantages of conservation, students swung sharply in favor of Government control of farming. After a five-minute paper on murder, a group swung in favor of capital punishment. After reading a speech by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins advocating social insurance, the students favored it much more strongly than before...
There was plenty of psychological stimulus for the decline. Political reports from France were gravest of the grave. President Roosevelt had twitted the "selfish few" in a speech at Gainesville, Ga. two days before. A better reason for the fall in security prices was that U. S. business in general has been bad for six months and last week got worse...
...Labor Day, 1935, Promoter Gable gathered all of Oregon's bigwigs for the dedication. Dressed in dark silk shirt, riding breeches and boots, Emperor Gable was master of ceremonies, read a speech in which the instruction "chuckle" was written at appropriate spots. Said he: "I find myself shrinking into microscopic tininess beside the influence and the commerce we here set in motion." Next day an examiner of the Interstate Commerce Commission heard the application of Gilbert Gable's Gold Coast Railroad for a permit to build a 90-mile spur across the mountains into Port Orford from Leland...