Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Political ears thought they heard President Franklin Roosevelt's first third-term announcement when he said at Mount Vernon, in a speech commemorating President George Washington's first notification of election: "That Washington would have refused public service if the call had been a normal one has always been my belief. But the summons to the Presidency had come to him in a time of real crisis and deep emergency. The dangers that beset the young nation were as real as though the very independence Washington had won for it had been threatened once more by foreign foes...
...There were also speeches-off the record. Franklin Roosevelt as usual was the star guest, the virtuoso of ribbery. Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft was presented (in person) as a Republican foil to the President. Bob Taft proceeded to make on-the-record news by making a sensationally poor speech. When he had finished, New York's Tom Dewey applauded, grinned. He shared his friends' certainty that, if speechmaking has much to do with it, Bob Taft will not be hard for him to beat for the Republican Presidential nomination...
Moses chose as the subject of his first lecture "Notes on Political Theory and Practice in Politics." Open to the public, the speech attracted a large crowd. Like the first his other lecture, to be delivered on Friday, May 12, will deal with contemporary problems of government...
...speech by Prof. Kirtley Mather, Dean of the Harvard Summer School, and discussion of plans for next year will be featured at the first Annual Dinner of the Harvard Undergraduate Faculty at Phillips Brooks House tonight at 6:30 o'clock, which will be attended by the fifty undergraduate tutors and their tutees, members of the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet, and Dean Leighton. Mr. Mather's subject will be "The place of the Undergraduate Faculty in Democratic Education...
...world war this year is not inevitable, but very, very probable. However, the situation is better since President Roosevelt's speech yesterday. His warning proves to the dictators that he will be as unneutral as he can manage. Only fear of America can prevent a great war this year...