Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first-hand account of the incident, urged him to attend the commemoration exercises at the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, in which Captain Holmes was wounded, Sept. 16-17. The President, although scheduled to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the Constitution with a Washington speech the same day, said he hoped to attend...
...Henry Hoover ("Buffalo") didn't show up, but Honorary President Eleanor Roosevelt popped into camp one day, found several girls picking goodies from their "nibble box." Slamming the lid shut, the girls leaped up and saluted. Before a pageant called "Hands Across the World," Mrs. Roosevelt made a speech affirming her interest in world peace: "Peace abroad depends on peace at home and kindly feeling for one another. . . . Learn to laugh. . . . We owe it to the world to preserve our sense of humor. 'All dictators,'" she quoted Biographer Emil Ludwig, " 'are gloomy and silent...
Prime mover of Chicago's Charter Jubilee Art Show is flag-waving Chauncey McCormick, longtime vice president of Chicago's Art Institute, art impresario of the Century of Progress Exposition, grandnephew of the primordial Cyrus Hall McCormick. Chauncey McCormick who made his maiden political speech (''Save America") in the summer of 1935, is much more tolerant of radicalism in art than of radicalism in politics. When Mrs. Herbert Hoover was caught in a torrential rainstorm after inspecting the Century of Progress art show, gallant Mr. McCormick shooed a traffic officer from his corner to find...
This "Notes and Comment," like nearly all of its predecessors was written by Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, not elderly (38), not eccentric, but melancholy and increasingly troubled about the world. It was his curtain speech in The New Yorker. He was going away on a year's leave-of-absence, maybe a dozen years, to give himself time to think about progress & politics, whether to get out of their jumpy wake or try to catch up with them. He will probably consult with his melancholy colleague, James Grover Thurber, who is now in Europe sending back an occasional piece...
...least three: the scene in which the nervous young novelist, unaware that his Nana has become an overnight sensation, begs a loan of two francs from his publisher; the scene in which he tries to convince Mme Dreyfus and himself that his days of fighting are over; the courtroom speech in which he justifies his interference as a private citizen in L'Affaire Dreyfus. A Memorable also is Joseph Schildkraut's scene in which Dreyfus, white and dim after four years on Devil's Island, tries helplessly to comprehend his own pardon...