Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthday. Lawyer Clarence Darrow, 80; in Chicago. His standard birthday speech: "Nobody has ever been able to give me proof that there is another life and I don't know that I would want it if there were...
...Brown University Charles Evans Hughes III won the $150 Gaston Prize in oratory with a speech on The United States and the Next War, was thereby entitled to deliver one of the student addresses at Commencement this June, as were his father and grandfather, the Chief Justice, at their Brown Commencements...
Hart next questions whether the proposal can be considered a threat, as President Conant stated, "to freedom of speech and inquiry", to "liberty itself". This fear, he believes, is based on a possible future misuse of a now defensible measure. This raises the question: Just how dependent is personal liberty on the actions of the Supreme Court...
What particularly impresses one on reading the Burlingham speech is not just the fact that here is a liberal Democratic lawyer standing in the way of a liberal Democratic president on the issue of whether the Supreme Court should be compelled at the point of a gun to conform to the liberal doctrines of the current majority in power. For the country seems pretty well agreed at the moment that the tribunal could shift a long way to she left and still sit on the right of the Administration's political philosophy. Rather what takes...
Aside from the beauty of its speech and the power of its story, The Fall of the City proved to most listeners that the radio, which conveys only sound, is science's gift to poetry and poetic drama, that 30 minutes is an ideal time for a verse play, that artistically radio is ready to come of age, for in the hands of a master a $10 receiving set can become a living theatre, its loudspeaker a national proscenium...