Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME for Oct. 18, I find the following quotation from a speech by Mr. Lewis. Speaking of William Green he says, "He becomes inebriated by the exuberance of his own verbosity...
Edgar Bergen is a 34-vear-old Delta Upsilon from Northwestern. Born in Chicago of Swedish parents, raised in Decatur, he was a talented ventriloquist, magician and odd-jobs-man before he enrolled in the speech department. At Northwestern he scraped up $35 to have Charlie McCarthy made by a wood carver named Charlie Mack. The model was an Evanston newsboy. After college, Bergen and McCarthy took a job in a vaudeville house near Chicago's stockyards, doing four shows a day for $8 a week and enduring a smell Charlie didn't notice. Bergen's radio and motion picture...
Arrived in London, His Majesty was graciously pleased to assent to the text of his Speech from the Throne, drawn up by the Chamberlain Cabinet, and to assent to its being read to the Lords and Commons last week by the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham. This usual procedure of opening the last session of a Parliament did not necessitate the presence of Their Majesties, and Viscount Hailsham read with traditional decorum such phrases from the King's Speech as "the Queen...
...Speech, referring to monies voted by Parliament exclusively to members of the Royal Family other than the Duke of Windsor, thanked the Lords and Commons "for the provision you have made for the honor and dignity of The Crown." It said that the immediate cessation of "pirate" attacks by submarines in the Mediterranean after the Nyon agreement has made the King "happy." His Majesty noted "with satisfaction the strengthening of all three of my defense forces" and hoped that the coming Nine-Power Brussels Conference on China and Japan "may contribute to bring this deplorable conflict...
Thrice the board balloted on seventh-grade history. Then into the lobby where waited some 75 agents strode dark, rawboned President Sanderford and blond State School Superintendent L. A. Woods. Superintendent Woods began to make a speech. "Read us the adoptions," grimly cried the bookmen. Slowly the superintendent read them off. For seventh-grade history pupils: Row, Peterson's Building Our Nation...