Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holds the British Cabinet sinecure of Lord President of the Council at $10,000 yearly, is slated to be raised to the peerage soon and retire on a pension of $10,000. Severe eye trouble caused him to strain with visible pain last week as he read a gracious speech void of importance-in the true sense a swan song by a once great man once greatly beloved...
...henchmen on Washington's Birthday to honor the capitalist Father of His Country. Bland and self-possessed, Red Lin produced a scroll which he said was from the brush of Red Mao-as likely a story as though it should be claimed that Comrade Browder had written a speech in Chaucerian English or Attic Greek...
...lofty style Red Lin rolled off the speech-and no Chinese proletarian thought of holding against Red leaders the stuffy scholarship displayed. On the contrary this show of Scholarship was judged so likely to raise the kudos of Red Mao among the Chinese masses that strict censorship killed the story entirely out of all newsorgans controlled by the Nanking Government, and it was forbidden even to print that a Red had done anything so estimable as do homage to an Emperor of the glorious past. As a matter of curious Chinese fact, the Red Lin Po-chu of last week...
...point of view would have been unthinkable for a man of Dr. Conant's well known liberal views. The old saying has been applied to him that he is tolerant of everything except intolerance. No one has more vigorously fought for academic freedom and resisted efforts to curb free speech or civil libertics. Such a man, obviously, would not sanction the discharge of instructors from the university staff simply because some of their public statements had aroused criticism. It is well that, in the case in point, he has used the occasion more to drive home clemental truths which...
Sagacious Joseph Stalin showed in a speech made public last week that he knows what millions of Russians are thinking-namely that the Dictator and his Communist henchmen have been making too many mistakes. In a tactically sound proclamation J. Stalin gently beat his breast as he cried: "We should not think that if we are members of the Central Committee of People's Commissars we possess all the knowledge necessary to give correct leadership. Rank in itself gives neither knowledge nor experience. We must listen attentively to the voice of the masses and of the rank and file...