Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Copeland, Kittredge, Lake and now Lowest. They are names that every schoolboy knows, men who were only yesterday seen in the Yard, men with little green bags and little eccentricities of dress and speech, men whom undergraduates knew as men, but to the class that enters in the fall, and for many years to come, they will just be "authorities" with which to pad a bibliography. Their books can be brought in Boston or Bombay; they themselves are no longer the unique offering of Harvard...
...same time Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet publicly told Italy, in a speech before the Chamber of Deputies, that any surprise move intended to oblige France to code territory can lead only to armed conflict...
...House of Commons Prime Minister Chamberlain denied that his subordinate's speech represented official policy, admitted, however, that it expressed widespread disappointment at the "response the Government's policy of international appeasement had evoked in Germany." Mr. Chamberlain added that he saw no inconsistency in trying to be friends and arming to the teeth at the same time...
...concerned-in idealistic, handsome Anthony Eden, former British Foreign Secretary. He arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania just in time to change from tweeds to tails and go to the annual banquet of the National Association of Manufacturers at the Waldorf-Astoria. There he delivered a long, rambling, formless speech on Democracy and the Modern World which contained many a plug for Britain, many a warily delivered hint that the U. S. and Britain were pretty much in the same boat...
...Groups have lately circulated a triple-shot testimonial containing the following items: 1) a letter from Dr. Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, calling attention to a speech by the Archbishop of Canterbury; 2) the Archbishop's speech, in which he mentioned the Groups as one of many evidences of a new interest in religion; 3) a copy of the Church of England Newspaper devoted to extravagant praise of the Groups...