Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. As an opposition party the Republicans of Congress did not do themselves proud on the President's message. Said Senator McNary, Republican leader of the Senate, "A strong document that will provoke some controversy." Said Representative Snell, Republican leader of the House: "A very strong and outspoken speech which should command the attention of the country." Equally vapid were the comments of most other Republicans, of most Democrats. Senator Ashurst, one of those caught offside on the constitutional amendment question, vaguely described the message as "apples of gold in pictures of silver...
...bringing "legislative and judicial action into closer harmony." He did not demand, as he did in his horse & buggy declaration, that the Supreme Court swing into line, but said that the judiciary "is asked by the people to do its part in making democracy successful." His whole speech had the tenor of an appeal to the Court to put aside prejudices...
...cities. At their head will be a lame British spinster of 60 whom many a religionist considers the greatest preacher of her sex in the world - Dr. A. (for Agnes) Maude Royden. She arrived in Manhattan last week, proceeded to Baltimore for the first speech of a tour which will take her to San Fran cisco and back...
Died. Mrs. Isobel Carothers Berolzheimer, 36, "Lu" of the radio trio "Clara, Lu 'n Em," wife of Professor Howard Berolzheimer of the Northwestern University School of Speech; of pneumonia; in Evanston, Ill. Ill with influenza in Evanston lay "Em," Mrs. John Mayo Mitchell. On the air nearly six years, their gossipy act was conceived when the three were Zeta Phi Eta sisters at Northwestern...
Following are excerpts from a speech on "Academic Freedom" delivered by the Hon. Ogden L. Mills '05, before the Harvard Club of New York...