Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President was closeted for three hours with General H. M. Lord, Director of the Bureau of the Budget. In his budget speech last June, Mr. Coolidge had announced his determination to keep the next fiscal year appropriations at $3,200,000,000. Due chiefly to subsequent pension legislation, he was unable last week to cut the estimate below $3,270,000,000 even after blue-penciling $100,000,000 worth of proposals. The amount of the budget allowed for prohibition enforcement will be well over $30,000,000, last year's amount...
...Thompson: "We are permitted to talk to them while they are supposed to be playing cards. Maybe that is where the bunk is. Somebody springs a political speech on them...
...president, elected to preside over the 95th annual meeting of this hoary and distinguished assemblage, had chosen to quip facetiously and without precedent. The president's audience, numbering some 1,500 distinguished scientists, twittered and tittered with ap- preciation-for the president was Edward of Wales. His speech, though about nothing* in particular, was so much more amusing than that delivered in 1859 by the last royal president of the B. A. A. S. -"Dear Albert,"† Prince Consort of Queen Victoria! After all, mused many a scientist, is not Edward, spontaneous sponsor of such vivid fashions as green...
...stressed felicitously the concord of Science and Government. † Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. *This speech marked a turning point in the victorious struggle of Disraeli against Gladstone for the export of Church-of- Englanders...
Pulling themselves together after the inimitable opening speech of their royal president, smooth Edward of Wales, the august members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting last week in Oxford, deployed about the town to attend various section meetings, where marvel after scientific marvel was related demonstrated or predicted. Evolution. Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn of Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, was there as a guest to expatiate upon the enormous difference between Evolution as it is understood today and as it was debated in Oxford half a century ago by Darwin...