Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prominent among the speakers at the congress was Professor Alexander Meiklejohn, former President of Amherst, the text of whose speech appears below. The first division of the speech is reprinted in full today, the last part will appear in a subsequent issue...
There was a burst of applause, the applause that always follows this speech, no matter where delivered, or by whom. This time the deliverer was Governess Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming. The occasion was the opening of a new Gimbel Brothers department store, in Philadelphia. Three generations of the Messrs. Gimbel and their wives applauded. "The store," Governess Ross said, "is a tribute to womankind." It is also, of course, a place for a woman's money...
...Dictator Stalin snapped his whip and Nikolai Bukharin whom Stalin had already placed in the vice presidency was elected President. Bukharin is hand in glove with Stalin's policy of retrenchment in world revolutionary activities, but last week he was obliged to coddle the delegates by a fiery speech promising support of Chinese and Javanese Communists, the only Communist factions now actively embattled in their respective countries...
...newspapers long since assumed the robes of justice. For years the protagonists in sensational trials have been obliged to undergo scrutiny by a row, and lately a galleryful, of gimlet-eyed reporters, swift to pounce upon every crumb of speech or gesture; brusque, oily or slyly intrusive with their cameras at the courthouse door...
...Delaware & Hudson R. R., and master of even greater rail systems: "The Holland Society of New York gave me its 1926 medal. In its estimation I had 'done most to promote the welfare of mankind' in my particular field. Upon accepting the medal, I made a speech, showing that in 1925 each freight employe in the U. S. "handled 320,019 tons of goods for each mile of transportation furnished. In Africa where blackamoor porters still carry freight on their backs, each is capable of but 152 ton-miles a year. I explained the three basic means...