Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This speech, possibly heard by the kidnapped Dictator himself by radio, was followed by the arrival in Nanking of his most trusted adjutant with peremptory orders to Dr. Kung to halt his soldiers. Since Dr. Kung had just told everybody they would not be halted, this placed the Nanking Government in a dilemma calling for the talents of Brother T. V. Soong. Great Mr. Soong has been called "the Morgan of China," and it is stockbroker gossip in Shanghai that Brother Soong is not always on the best of terms with his little sister, Mme Chiang. The Soong family...
...PUBLIC SPEECH-Archibald MacLeish - Farrar & Rinehart...
...convinced that where I failed no one could have succeeded," concluded the Prime Minister. "Let no word be spoken that causes pain to any soul and let us not forget today the revered, beloved figure of Queen Mary." The speech also contained that little throb of penitence which has for years been the trademark of every "crisis speech" by Stanley Baldwin. A democratic Prime Minister must undertake no great matter without informing at least three or four principal members of the British Cabinet. Of his approach to Edward VIII on this gravest issue, the Prime Minister told the House...
...relatively narrow, and largely assigned to commercial operators. President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette College described the only U. S. short-wave station that is non-commercial and non-profit-making, Boston's WIXAL. Founded by Engineer Walter S. Lemmon, who shyly refused last week to make a speech, WIXAL since 1934 has broadcast lectures and lessons by Harvard, Radcliffe and Boston university professors, as well as chamber music and the complete public program of this year's Harvard Tercentenary. Stocky, blond Engineer Lemmon, who was wireless operator on the George Washington when it took Woodrow Wilson...
...some advertiser. National Broadcasting Co. last year devoted 4,095 hours, most of them sustaining, to "educational purposes" and this year expects to contribute 4.360 hours, 44% of the network's total broadcasting time. Sample NBC programs: "Your English." a diction course called "Magic of Speech." a weekly half- hour donated to the National Congress of Parents & Teachers, a Music Appreciation Hour conducted by Walter Damrosch. NBC also furnishes an hour a week to "America's Town Meeting of the Air," a program of uninhibited discussion on a set topic by luminaries like Raymond Moley and Fannie Hurst...