Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short speech over the radio, Archibald T. Davison, professor of Choral Music and conductor of the Glee Club, emeritus, who gave an organ recital in Memorial Church at eight o'clock, praised the organization and its continued success under Woodworth...
...sulking Congress had already had a warning of his temper. Aboard his special train as it rolled up from the South day before, he had volunteered to newshawks the information that he was determined to press afresh the aims outlined in his Madison Square Garden speech last October. In that speech, angriest of his campaign, he had said that in his Second Administration he hoped that "the forces of selfishness and lust for power'' would "meet their master...
...incident and news of it did not leak out. Shortly after his arrival at Hot Springs he received a warm letter of welcome from Arkansas' Governor Bailey and letters from Little Rock's acting Mayor and Chamber of Commerce president, welcoming him to their city for a speech he was scheduled to make there after his stay at the spa. The facts that Chicago's Mitchell is the first Negro Democrat to sit in Congress and a New Dealer besides had all to do> with these receptions...
Congressman Mitchell's stay in Arkansas, darkened by this incident, ended in something of a personal triumph with his speech at Little Rock before a mixed audience to which he was introduced by U. S. District Attorney Fred A. Isgrig. But he was not ready to forget. On his return trip he rode the Jim Crow car of another railroad without being told. When he got back to Chicago, Congressman Mitchell, a lawyer himself, hired another lawyer to see what could be done about...
...Love Thee. As Septimus was more prolific, so was his end more picturesque. On a fine November day in 1902 he attended the dedication of a new building for his alma mater, the old High School, shook hands with President Roosevelt, the principal speaker, made a speech himself, went home and died...