Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although more stress has been laid on the disastrous consequences of Ambassador Bullitt's address in Paris than it merited, the speech was highly suggestive. Unquestionably the stand of the present Administration is wholly in opposition to any aggressive intervention in a European struggle. Increases in armaments have been purely for the maintenance of peace and armed neutrality in any future war. Nevertheless, Bullitt, as the personal representative of the President, has apparently encouraged France to hope for aid from the United States...
...Roosevelt administration approve, but will not necessarily act in the France-British campaign was a formal statement that American sympathizes for an end to the armament race. That the address are with European democracies in general cannot well be doubted in view of the wording of the speech. Stating that the people of America are "not indifferent to" the plight of those nations who are striving to maintain the "tradition of western civilization", the Ambassador clearly hints at assistance from the United States in a war. Americans and French alike cannot overlook the significance of such a statement. Regardless whether...
...among whom is many a Ph.D. Bob Jones students take a general course for two years, then are "purged'' much as are Communists, whom Bob Jones hates and chiefly preaches against. All students not outstanding in Christian leadership are ousted, the rest shunted into major courses in Speech. Music or Religion. Many of them turn out to be Fundamentalist preachers, although some find that majoring in Religion gives them a firm foundation for such vocations as selling insurance. While "Dr. Bob," as his students call him, is on preaching tours, his 25-year-old son Bob Jr. becomes...
...Parker: "The leopard never changes his spots! Once an honest man, always an honest man!" He called the jury's attention to his spotless record on the Tribune. Mr. Parker regards the present-day Tribune as Chicago's greatest liability, once assured a crowd at a stump speech for Presidential Candidate William Lemke that Col. McCormick was both Chicago's "Dictator" and its "Public Enemy No. 1." Col. McCormick had a doughty champion in Tribune Lawyer John Martineau who now jumped up in rebuttal to castigate the man who had bearded his boss. "A skunk never changes...
Culminating the series of talks on the many subjects open to Freshmen, President Conant will speak to the entire Class of 1940 on March 6. It is believed that his speech will be of a general nature...