Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vishinsky had offered the Russian plain in his first speech before this session of the U.N. in September, after he had belabored the U.S. and Britain for trying to start an atomic war. It proposed: 1) that the assembly condemn "preparations for war" being made by the two western nations; 2) that the assembly outlaw the atomic bomb as a weapon; and 3) that the assembly request the Big Five (U. S., Britain, France, China, and Russia) to make a new non-aggression pact...
What effect Canada's more self-assertive foreign policy might have outside the country remained to be seen. But there was no doubt about the reaction at home. Members of Parliament thumped their desks enthusiastically. Newspapers hailed Pearson's speech as "a penetrating analysis" and "a masterly survey." For a change, Canadians clearly liked a little muscle-flexing in foreign affairs...
Texas' Senator Tom Connolly got off a history-making announcement in a speech before 400 businessmen celebrating the opening of a $7,000,000 Nabisco plant in Houston. Assuring the baking company officials that they had invested their money safely, the senator predicted: "There is not going to be any Communism in this country or in Texas...
...Brandeis blueprint also calls for a streamlining of its old parklike campus overlooking the Charles River. The dissecting room of the Middlesex medical school has been made over into a cafeteria, a stable into a library and an animal hospital into a speech clinic. Last week, while it was finishing its new $500,000 science building, Brandeis was also making plans for a new $250,000 library and a $200,000 dormitory...
...Some people will remember Mr. Crawford as the militant industrialist who challenged the efforts of the wartime National Labor Relations to stifle free speech on the apart of employers," Cole said...