Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Samuel E. Morison '02, professor of History, whose colorful speech two years ago roused a similar audience by dramatic quotations from Hamlet, said last night that the advocates of repeal will not "stick their necks...
Said Commentator Dorothy Thompson of the New York Herald Tribune: "Hitler never delivered a more ominous speech or one more cunningly calculated to befuddle his opponents and create dissension in democracies. The speech boils down to a declaration of intention to reapportion the distribution of the world's wealth among nations." James G. McDonald, chairman of President Roosevelt's Committee for Refugees, thought the speech was a threat to peace, that it heralded the Nazis' use of the Jews for expansion purposes. Osservatore Romano, semi-official organ of the Roman Catholic Church, challenging the Fiihrer...
...From Berlin last week an irate Nazi newscaster griped: "The New York short wave broadcasting station (NBC's W3XL) contributed lying news yesterday during a news broadcast given at the same time the Fiihrer was making his speech." The objectionable items, quoted from British newspapers, were: 1) that Hitler might have to undergo a second operation on his throat; and 2) that German troops were massing near the French and Italian borders. What obviously had the Nazi back up was not NBC's news, but the fact that too many Germans were listening to it when they should...
...School's bacteriology department, is neither a Jesuit nor a Roman Catholic. Two and a half years ago he became a sponsor of the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy. St. Louis' Jesuit trustees were annoyed. When, year and half ago, the committee sponsored a pro-Loyalist speech in St. Louis by an allegedly unfrocked Irish priest, Michael O'Flanagan, St. Louis' Catholic Club and Archbishop John J. Glennon were more than annoyed; they demanded that Dr. Fleisher resign from the group of sponsors. Dr. Fleisher disavowed responsibility for the priest's remarks, refused...
...tale: a stroke of lightning which ripped off all the clothes of a beautiful young woman in the streets of Calendin (pop.: 5,000), left her mute from shock. Shocked in his turn by the dazzling sight, a passer-by who had long been mute, recovered his powers of speech...