Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...positive fashion, and so announced that starting on the following day, all men, who were so inclined, were to report at his room at five o'clock; from there a daily cross country run would commence, so that everyone should be in good training when active participation began. His speech was heartily applauded...
...Academy of Political Science, a prosperous group of U. S. businessmen, professors and economists at whose gatherings white ties are more in evidence than Windsor bows, made large headlines in 1933 when George Bernard Shaw delivered a saucy socialistic speech under its auspices at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Last week the Academy, gathered for its 57th annual meeting at Manhattan's Astor Hotel, heard an equally newsmaking speech, neither saucy nor socialistic, by U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...
...Capitol is the American War Mothers. Only time War Mothers are allowed to exercise their privilege is Nov. 11. Last week War Mothers' President Mrs. Irving Fairweather watched the flag hoisted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars' Chief Lobbyist Millard Rice. The hoisting was followed by a speech from Florida's onetime (1933-37) Governor David Sholtz, a rendering of The Unknown Soldier, composed by the late Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin, by the U. S. Navy School of Music Band. Thus observed in the nation's capital last week, the 19th Anniversary...
...they played the Franck Symphony, and, with Pianist Muriel Kerr, the fourth Beethoven Concerto. More eyes will be turned on them next month when they play the world premiere of Jacob Weinberg's Gettysburg Address, a symphonic ode to the text of Abraham Lincoln's immortal speech...
...citizen. Said Franklin Roosevelt's pressagent at the Association's dinner in his honor: "There is an impression . . . that I sit at the President's right hand,* sharing his innermost thoughts, and that no Congressman or Senator can make a speech or take a drink without consulting me. Unfortunately, that picture is not exactly accurate...