Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largely to their own regulations, the docket is reduced to about 640 cases at present. Among those near the top of the list Mal S. Daugherty's case,+ Edwin L. Doheny's oil lease appeal case, and those involving judicial construction of the Constitutional terms "free speech" and "free assembly" are of most interest to the lay public. And, again, they beamed benignly at the design for the New Supreme Court Building by the late Henry Bacon. Henry Bacon also designed the Lincoln Memorial, and his plans for the judicial, structure embodies the same stately simplicity and dignity...
...Thomas Francis Bayard, father of the present Senator, was the greatest of all the clan. In 1861 he made a speech which is said 'to have kept Delaware from seceding from Union. He was a Senator (1869-85), a Secretary of State and first U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Charles M, Schwab, steel potentate: "I make many speeches before businessmen in this republic, but rarely have I been so fluent as I was in Chicago last week before 1,500 guests of the Association of Commerce. I told them that U. S. industry was never better, that the steel corporations were prospering even with a profit of less than 6%. I sprinkled my speech with anecdotes. This one made them laugh: 'I had entertained a governor of one of our largest states at my country place.* After seeing him about the grounds, I suggested: "Governor, would you like...
...characteristics which we have striven for in our selection," declared W. J. Bingham '16 in explaining the two factors which had been taken into consideration in choosing as head Coach the former coach of the class crews. The Director of Athletics was greatly applauded as he finished his speech, turning to Coach Brown, he concluded, "We'll stick to you as long as you give intelligent instruction, and it is not on your victories that we are going to base your existence here...
...than in the United States, he said. Members of the Communist party control all soviet-managed enterprises; and as for the mass of the people, Mr. Hays said: "The people are not free according to our notion of freedom; and they're rather cynical about it. The only free speech I heard from anyone was from Americans and American journalists. The Russians refuse to talk about political and economic matters. The soviet system is founded entirely on discipline, not at all on freedom...