Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard a "Mother's Day" speech by West Virginia's Goff...
...Mutt Psychology." Just before the vote, California's Senator Hiram Johnson arose, pulled down his waistcoat, rattled off a fast-stepping speech which, beneath the ridicule, epitomized the Senate's opinion in favor of Debentures. His fists moved back and forth characteristically as he conceded the debenture was a "bounty" and asked, "What...
...doing exactly what we have demanded shall not be done by the Catholics." Dr. Wilson answered with another open letter to Dr. Copeland, denied that the Copeland vote had been influenced, declared: "We have no lobby here, we have no lobbyist. . . . Nevertheless we have the right of free speech, free press. . . ." Then concerning Catholics, Dr. Wilson added: "The Catholic Church has long had a headquarters here from which they have no hesitancy in conferring with Senators and other government officials, and not a Methodist pulpit in the land has made any special protest against that right." Alert Washingtonians thereupon expected...
...Commerce (Dr. Hans Schürff) aboard, the Graf Zeppelin rose from its field at Friedrichshafen one morning at dawn and before 10 a. m. was flying over Vienna. School children in the streets sent up balloons with flags and flowers. Dr. Hugo Eckener sent down by radio a speech saying: "We crossed the frontier a few hours ago, but we do not feel ourselves in an alien land. We have the same tongue, the same Kultur, the same hopes. We will again come." Then the Zeppelin flew to Graz and returned home via Vienna and Salzburg, completing the trip...
...finals of the annual debate for the Pasteur Medal for the best speech in English on some topic of contemporary French politics will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Large Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum. The subject of the debate will be, "Resolved: That French industry may adopt American methods of mass production without fear of compromising its individualistic advantages...