Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commission. It appeared further that Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and close friends believed that the enterprise would be a failure and left the project strictly alone, although saying nothing. Mr. Pettey did not know Mr. Wilson, had never met him, but once (as a stenographer) had taken down a speech he made. Promoter Lowell had never even seen Woodrow Wilson. How the sum of $5,500,000 was fixed upon and exactly how it was to be spent were points the two promoters did not make clear, except that they felt sure there was to be a university. It does...
...Chamberlain's Speech. "My Lord Mayor, thanks to your hospitality I have drunk tonight of your loving cup with the German Ambassador. What we have done this evening may the nations do tomorrow. We will work in the spirit of Locarno. . . . I am confident that the Locarno accords will be ratified by every country there represented. No statesman dare take the responsibility before history of dashing from our lips the cup of hope that Locarno has presented!" Continuing amid applause, he concluded, "I . . . hope that the same spirit of mutual understanding and mutual goodwill which prevailed . . . at Locarno...
...Mulai-el-Hassan as Caliph of Spanish Morocco (TIME, Nov. 16) continued last week at Tetuan. General Miguel Primo de Rivera, head of the Spanish Military Directorate conferred upon the new Caliph the Spanish Order of the Grand Collar of Carlos III; and the Grand Vizier read a speech on behalf of the 16-year-old Mulai-el-Hassan, which terminated with a prayer for the return of peace to Morocco...
...reason, with the unhappy result that Ingersoll became an agnostic, and all his life continued to champion his faith in no faith. He studied law, was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1857. In the Civil War he raised a regiment of cavalry, used in his recruiting speeches a natural eloquence unsurpassed in his generation. But it was not until his speech in the Republican Convention of 1876 that he came to national fame as an orator...
...king; words, cadences, images, poured from him like an endless golden cable unwinding from his mouth; when he addressed a jury he could make the twelve spellbound dolts do whatever he told them, and he often used his genius for the weak, the defenseless, the depraved. After his Convention speech, he could have held political office; men in the Administration asked him politely would he like to be Minister to Germany ? Attorney General? Would he, sometime, care to run for President? Said he: "I do not believe in your God. . . . I do not wish to bring the rancor of religious...