Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prairie and offered tangible evidence. Potent among the defendants was Manhattan Architect Francis L. S. Mayers of the firm of Mayers, Murray and Phillip (Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue Associates), successors to Architect Goodhue. Mr. Mayer's firm has completed much unfinished Goodhue work. Grey, solid, brisk of speech, Mr. Mayers showed at the investigation that the terrace bulged because expansion joints and drains had not been properly tended, that practically nothing had been spent for maintenance, which should be some $67,000 per year. He showed that the rarest marbles are expected to chip when turned for columns, that clever...
There are some perfectly harmless words which an English gentleman cannot come right plump out with. Reporters covering the Conservative Party keynote speech, delivered last week by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in Drury Lane Theatre, noticed that he paused perceptibly and shifted his shoulders the merest trifle in the middle of the following sentence: "I come now to the subject of [pause] maternity...
This was the crux of the whole speech. The Prime Minister had been droning for an hour about the Conservative Party's record. He now came to a vote-getting, unexpected, radical electioneering premise which party strategists had calculated would appeal to the 5,000,000 women between 21 and 30 who have just been enfranchised for the first time by the so-called "Votes for Flappers Bill" (TIME, Aug. 13, et ante...
Although the resolution does not specifically name Harvard, Representative Hagan, in his speech before the committee a week ago, made certain references to the relations which he claimed existed between the Harvard Business School and the National Electric Light. Association, as disclosed in an investigation last year by the Federal Trade Commission into the propaganda, activities of public utilities. It is the purpose of this article to sketch the background of that investigation and to indicate some of its disclosures...
...speech delivered before the members of the Massachusetts Schoolmasters' Club at its annual meeting in the Hotel Bellevue Saturday afternoon, President Lowell criticised some of the modern trends of education, concentrating his attack upon the "snap" courses that exist at Harvard...