Word: speech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept mum about politics. His silence during the presidential campaign led fellow South Carolinians to wonder whether he looked on the Dixiecrats with favor. But not until last week did he let anybody know how he really felt about things: in the midst of a speech on foreign affairs he let loose a hot blast of scorn at the domestic Fair Deal...
Only William Orville Douglas, the justice with the cowlick and the friendly grin, was absent; he had flown off to the Middle East to climb a mountain and make a speech...
C.I.O. convention last year Justice Douglas confided: "The human welfare state is the great political invention of the 20th Century." And labor, he added warmly, has been its prime promoter. If some of his colleagues thought his speech a little less than judicial none of them said so in public...
...appeal to many people, if we are to act wisely in the world today. But a frank clear exposition of Marxist doctrine is the last thing to be expected from men trained to work by undercover methods. The usual formulas by which one attempts to guarantee freedom of speech and teaching are all, I fear, inadequate guides in the extreme complexity of the present situation. John T. Edsail '23 Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry
...speech before alumni, deans, overseers and visiting committee members meeting with the sponsors of the new Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research, the President restated two principles which he and Grenville Clark '03, senior Corporation member, recently set forth...