Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...injurious to the very cause it seeks to promote. This may be an easy way out of the difficulty, but completely misses the mark of satisfying the just demands of the teaching profession. The latter has always granted that the bill itself does not interfere with freedom of speech, while insisting that it represents a dangerous tendency and an opening wedge to more pernicious action...
...comfort can be gained from Section 2A of the law, which Dr. Beatley would have one believe removes most valid objections. This section is a pious statement that the law is not intended to interfere with freedom of speech and thought as guaranteed by the Constitution. In fact, this very tergiseveration admits that the law aims to do just that. A dagger dipped in honey is no less deadly...
Another gauge of the Realmleader's bigness this year was the recent scramble of statesmen, as soon as they heard that he was going to convene the Reichstag to make speeches of appeasement, conciliation and even flattery. In thus buttering Der Führer, immaculate British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden led (TIME, Jan. 25). He was followed by French Premier Leon Blum, who as a Socialist and a Jew doubly hates the Nazis. And last week the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, inflexible Neville Chamberlain, who is perhaps to become the next Prime Minister after the Coronation...
Acquiescence of God. The rest of the two-hour speech rambled over "German equality;" Bolshevism (Hitler is against it); Colonies (Hitler is for them, but at the moment not fervently, saying, "We make no colonial demands or claim against States which took no colonies away from us."*; Generalissimo Franco and his Spanish Whites (Hitler is for them);, the League of Nations (Hitler is against it); and Germany's further Rearmament under the Nazi Four-Year Plan (TIME, Sept. 21). In a final German outburst the Messiah, almost weeping, rejoiced that the Fatherland's "truest fighters [have] hung their...
Over from Brooklyn Navy Yard came U. S. Rear Admiral Harris Laning to make a little speech. Up from Washington came British Captain F. C. Bradley, R. N. to make another. These seadogs found no technical flaw in Soldier Clegg's work, for Soldier Clegg had with great accuracy noted on the spot every shell splash, turret and barbette...