Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Digesting these signs and portents, the Prime Minister convened his Cabinet- with two vacancies-and began to chart the Speech from the Throne to be delivered November 8. This is the annual state-of-the-nation speech of His Majesty's Government, and since His Majesty's Government have vital interests in every part of the world, it behooved Mr. Chamberlain to look about him far & wide...
Jocularly, Mr. Kennedy began by relating that when Mrs. Kennedy first heard what was in his mind as he prepared his Trafalgar Day Speech, she cautioned : "Have you thought how this would sound back home? You know, Dear, our ambassadors are supposed to lose all their powers of resistance when they get to London. You don't want folks to get the idea that you are seeing things through English eyes...
Having thought this over, having submitted the full text of his speech in advance to the State Department, and having emphasized that he was speaking in London for himself, not the Administration, candid Ambassador Kennedy revealed his feelings about the way the crisis was handled and the implications of Munich. Earnestly Mr. Kennedy declared: "It long has been a theory of mine that it is unproductive for both democratic and dictator countries to widen the division now existing between them by emphasizing their differences, which are self-apparent. Instead of hammering away at what are regarded as irreconcilables, they could...
...free-speech issue is child's play compared to the brass-tack problem of carrying New Jersey for the New Deal, and last week Franklin Roosevelt sent his No. 3 Cabinet officer, Secretary of War Harry Woodring, to Hudson County to do business with Boss Hague. The occasion was a rally for the Senate candidacy of William Harvey Johnson Ely, who has been administering WPA in New Jersey and who, though a Hague protege, has promised to be a 100% New Dealer. Secretary Woodring's business with Boss Hague was to find out whether, in return for continued...
Other Departments Aid Clinic Founded in 1933 the Speech Clinic has received cooperation from the Department of Hygiene and from the various specialists in psychology and psychiatry in the University...