Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech, sponsored jointly by the Memorial Society and the Freshman Committee, dealt with interesting reminiscences of Professor Hart's college days...
When Illinois' Church started to enlarge on his eagerness to enact tax legislation which had not yet been drafted. Leader Rayburn, fearful of what was coming, appealed to Speaker Bankhead: "I did not yield to the gentleman to make a speech...
...parliamentary seats to be filled on December 12 by the first election under Russia's new Constitution (TIME, Nov. 8) disclosed last week that in nearly every case only one candidate had been nominated for each seat. According to Soviet President Mikhail Kalinin in a speech at Leningrad last week, the average Russian is asking himself: "What is the use of my going to vote? There is only one candidate, and he will be elected anyway...
...German residents in Paris. The Fatherland's trade with all German colonies in 1914 amounted to only 1% of Germany's total trade. Today such facts of economic history are flung by Germans on the scrap heap. In Hamburg last week an especially vehement colony-demanding speech was made by General Göring. Roared he: "Germany is entitled to colonies-the same as other nations-and we shall not rest until our just claims are fulfilled...
...urbanity and retiring self assurance -receiving the congratulations of state officials, municipal leaders, foreign envoys and friends. At the concert all eyes were upon his rugged figure as he sat, with his small, dapper wife, between the President and the Field Marshal. Though urged, he declined to make a speech. Even when Finland's Premier, Dr. Kivimaki, addressing the great audience, presented him with a laurel wreath symbolic of an entire nation's debt, he remained firmly and shyly silent. It was only later, at a banquet given by intimate friends, that he tried to express his gratitude...