Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since all that the "Crimson" has written about the Teachers' Oath Bill has been opposition, and since this opposition has been in the interest of "Freedom of speech, conscience, and education", we feel confident that it will not deny a word from those who, while not in favor of the bill, object to the methods used by the opposition. Surely the liberal spirit that is characteristic of Harvard College will give due publication and consideration to any opinion on a measure of such importance to the students as well as to the teachers...
...announcing that he had appointed a committee headed by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to work out a plan of crop insurance. Up from Topeka rose realistic howls of pain and rage as Landon handlers claimed the President was stealing their man's stuff. Snatching it from his forthcoming speech, they rushed the Landon crop insurance program to the press: "I believe that the question of crop insurance should be given the fullest attention" (TIME...
Neither Alfred P. Sloan Jr. nor John L. Lewis would care to have anyone in the White House make such a speech as Orator Hitler spouted to open the Show. With a typical decree, Der Führer had just ordered that on May 1 down must go the prices of automobile spare parts in a State-set scale of from 5% to 30%. He followed this by roaring at the German automotive industry that it has got to cease dillydallying over his projected "Folksy Automobile" and start turning it out at a price of about 1,000 marks...
James M. Landis, Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission and Dean designate of the Law School, outlined the activities and objectives of the Commission in a speech last night before the City Club of Boston. Questioned on his advent to the Law School, Landis said that he will be glad to come, as he will have more time to think than at present...
...deadlier gas, the pitiable little pawn of a waiter who went out resignedly for the Austrians and is now seen ready to go out resignedly for the Italians. Alfred Lunt is overflowing with the shrewdness and practicality his part calls for, and if no Middle-Westerner ever heard speech so raucous as his, he has simply gone too far on the right track. Lynn Fontanne is flawless as the London gutter-snipe who, when her hair was red, slept with him in a hotel room in Omaha, and now that her hair is yellow, tells in fine Romanov inflections...