Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Issue of Oct. 21, p. 17, "General Pershing's 'Lafayette, we are here.' " Not his. Col. Charles E. Stanton, U.S.A., now of San Francisco, spoke for ''Black Jack" at Picpus Cemetery, and coined the phrase. When Stanton wrote his speech in advance of delivering it, Pershing read it and inked his O.K. on it. The manuscript belongs to the Family (club) of S.F. The phrase is its preoration. Furthermore, Pershing gave Stanton credit some years ago in a letter published in Collier...
...word 'liberal' is curiously ineffective; so are the liberals themselves." Thus Professor R. K. Rogers '09, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology characterized this title and this group in a caustic speech to the members of the Liberal Club last night. "One would like liberalism if it were not for the liberals. In their ranks is a fringe of people which cannot be respected, and whose morals are often of doubtful calibre. As a type they are likely to go to extreme wrath with regard to some things, and then to have absolutely nothing to say concerning others...
More policemen than citizens witnessed the Louisville parade. The hall where the President spoke was only half-filled with curious spectators who did not grasp the significance of his speech on inland waterway development...
...enforcement was the subject of the first big speech, by outgoing President Gurney Elwood Newlin of Los Angeles. He took the up-to-date angle: "The resort to lawlessness in enforcing law or seeking to enforce the law is more than casual, in fact, it tends to be habitual...
...Speeches. "I was never able to deliver a set speech; never able to write it, and never able to read it. In all of my debates and speeches, I used only a single envelope or two with just the headings jotted down...