Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economist Professor Paul van Zeeland (TIME, Nov. 1), expected by many last week to return as Premier after the courts confirm a Parliamentary vote which recently cleared him of charges in connection with a scandal at the National Bank of Belgium (TiME, Sept. 20 et ante). In his program speech last week, Premier Janson promised to continue the van Zeeland policy of keeping down prices and therefore the cost of living. He promised to carry forward van Zeeland's extension of unemployment insurance, health insurance and old age pensions...
...10th annual All-American Air Maneuvers: four days of races, aerobatics and conferences. Mostly privately owned and flown, more than 200 of the planes present were Taylor "Cubs," Aeronca and Taylorcraft; 40 others were righting and bombing machines from the U. S. Marine Base at Quantico, Va. In a speech before the meet, Contest Chairman Carl Fromhagen enthusiastically declared: "We're playing directly to the grandstands this year. We have more stunts in this show than we know how to get into the program...
Dean Ralph Dennis of Northwestern University's School of Speech awarded to Charlie McCarthy, No. i U. S. dummy, the honorary degree of Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback. The citation: "He is ... a prince of parasites, violent in company, churlish in behaviour, acid in conversation, wooden-faced in all relationships, and in all other aspects a typical product of higher learning in America...
...Supreme Court in 1929. A tireless, homeless agitator, she has been freely circularized by her enemies as "German spy, Bolshevik agent and swindler of Henry Ford," by her friends as "the world's most powerful woman." Last week in Manhattan, after acknowledging her award with a speech proposing a World Federation of Nations, she lamented that the prize money would cancel only her "most pressing" debts...
...looks as if Business would gain a first down this week, for in the final speech of the Congress of American Industry, Colby Chester states the case of industry more simply, and moderately, than it has been stated to date. Frankly and significantly recognizing the political and economic power of Labor, he asks for an immediate three-way conference-Business, Government and Labor...