Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Employment Symposium at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, she urged that domestic work be put on a professional basis. Most fluttered guest at the lunch was one Mildred Stewart, a maid, who sat between Mrs. Roosevelt and feminist Author Fannie Hurst. Mrs. Roosevelt listened to Miss Stewart's speech: "As trained workers we don't feel we have anything to gain from a union ... we have discussed the advantages of social security but we haven't fallen for the arguments of either C. I. O. or A. F. of L. organizers...
...occasion on which he was welcomed to China as Minister was a landmark in the course of U. S.-Chinese relations. At a vast, formal tea at the Grand Hotel in beautiful Tsingtao, the city's acting mayor rose, rustled his black silk gown, made a pretty, set speech in Chinese. An interpreter laboriously translated. Then Mr. Johnson got up, paused, bowed to hosts and guests. The audience set itself for a weary, long-winded speech which most of them would not understand. With a grin, Nelson Johnson proposed a toast and made a short speech in perfect Mandarin...
...opening of Parliament by George VI, famed and beloved old Field Marshal Lord Milne sounded off, after the Speech from the Throne, against mollycoddle notions that the German people are only dupes and victims of the Nazis. Stanch old Lord Milne, who proudly recalled that he fought under Queen Victoria, keynoted that he believes every nation gets the kind of Government its people want or deserve and that the Germans have that now. "There is a deep strain of brutality in the German nation!" he boomed, roundly begged to differ with the large school of intellectual-liberals who said during...
...Party Leader Clement Attlee favored the House of Commons with one of his most turgid effusions of Marxist dialectic, argued that Britain ought to "begin now to plan" to adopt Socialist nationalizations of the means of production as an aid to winning the war, provoked the quip, "If that speech could be bottled, Attlee would make a fortune selling it to cure insomnia...
...recent actions by other universities limiting academic freedom, chiefly at Chicago, where students are not allowed to criticize the administration directly, and at Ohio State, where a Marxist club was banned. Mentioning the refusal by the University to allow Earl Browder to use a lecture hall for a speech, he remarked that academic freedom was especially threatened during wartime...