Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech yesterday afternoon at the Liberal Club, the Reverend Alfred Gilman, D.D., former president of Boone University, and a missionary in various districts of China during the past 25 years, explained the conditions which have been prevalent in China recently and which have caused revolutionary state of that country. "In order to know what is happening," Dr. Gilman stated, "we must turn back to the revolution of 1898 and the events immediately following it. The young emperor at that time was a decided progressive, and with the collaboration of three of his ministers, started on a policy of reform...
Those who followed closely this portion of the speech wondered why Vice President Sacasa was absent from Nicaragua on Nov. 10, 1926. The President did not touch upon this point. Dr. Sacasa, of course, declares that he was absent because, had he been present he would have been shot down like a dog by his enemies: the Diaz-Charnorro faction. President Coolidge observed en passant, that at the end of November, after spending some time in Mexico City, Dr. Sacasa went back to Nicaragua, landing at Puerto Cabezas, near Bragman's bluff (with an armed force...
...leading citizens of Wisconsin, both of whom talk well, talked last week: John J. Elaine, retiring Governor, U. S. Senator-elect, dis- ciple of the late great, free-speech liberal, Robert M. LaFollette; Glenn Frank, President of the University of Wisconsin...
...Story is not laid in Abe-deen* but in Vienna. It begins with a speech: "In whose hands is the press and therefore public opinion? In the hands of the Jew! Who has piled billions upon billions . . . ? The Jew! Who controls the tremendous circulation of our money, who sits at the director's desk in the great banks, who is the head of practically all industries? The Jew! Who owns our theatres? The Jew! Who writes the plays that are produced? The Jew! Who rides about in automobiles, who revels in the night resorts, who crowds the cafes and fashionable...
...within scenes in which the Comedie Francaise revels. The play is a show-piece. It has the further advantage for foreign consumption that it is readily understood. The enunciation of the players is nicely turned to aid foreign ears. But it is not necessary to depend upon the actors' speech. There is the program to fall back upon; and the very situations themselves are usually self-explanatory...