Word: addressed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, Stephen Vincent Benet, well-known modern author, will address an audience composed of members of the Union. Although his definite topic has not yet been announced his subject will probably cover recent writing in general...
...Samuel Johnson, whom Peter meets, only "thunders out a few platitudes." And when Peter absentmindedly reaches for a cigaret he finds only a miniature cabinet. On the other hand, he creates a reputation for brilliance simply by using, as though they were his own, remarks from Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" and "some cheap epigrams by a fellow named Oscar Wilde...
...Right pricked up their ears. The whole Chamber began to sense that here was another Strong Man, like the men who are his backers, Poincare and Clemenceau, both too old and sick to take the helm. With sound strategy, M. Tardieu shifted from foreign affairs to a masterful address on internal agrarian and financial policy. That turned the scale. For years M. Tardieu has been called Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), designated to succession by the fiscal genius who saved and stabilized the franc, M. Raymond Poincare (TIME, Jan. 3. 1927). Last week the Deputies were apparently convinced at last...
...Junior at Amherst, he was troubled by his father's business failure, but got himself an assistant instructorship in public speaking and worked his way through his Senior year. In Chicago, where he went to work (for $10 weekly) for Western Electric, he found that his address, chosen for cheapness, excited criticism; further discovered that he had innocently selected a room in one of the Loop's worst dives. Solution: He moved, paid more rent, still made his $10 serve. In 1907 came a really major trouble. Summoned to Manhattan to be assistant to the president of Trust...
...increasing competition of public health, commercial health and free institutional medical activities. The campaign was certified as a good example for physicians in other communities to follow by President-elect William Gerry Morgan of the American Medical Association, who went from his office at Washington to Manhattan to address the opening mass-meeting of the movement at the New York Academy of Medicine. Secretary of the Interior Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, onetime A. M. A. president, also approved, by letter...