Contemporary Forum: American Speeches on Twentieth-century IssuesCompanion volume to "American forum - speeches on historic issues, 1788-1900". American speeches on twentieth-century issues. |
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But when Herbert Hoover walked out on the convention platform on June 10 , the conven- tion exploded . There had been misgivings about inviting Hoover to speak , so much was he the public's symbol of the depression ; but the glum Hoover ...
But when Herbert Hoover walked out on the convention platform on June 10 , the conven- tion exploded . There had been misgivings about inviting Hoover to speak , so much was he the public's symbol of the depression ; but the glum Hoover ...
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Speaking at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1930 he named educa- tion as " the most far - reaching and the most fundamental way of correcting social evils and meeting social issues . " And in the speech reprinted in this ...
Speaking at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1930 he named educa- tion as " the most far - reaching and the most fundamental way of correcting social evils and meeting social issues . " And in the speech reprinted in this ...
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They merely restrict the circle from which regenera- tion can come . I say this - I hope you will believe me - in no Puritan or pleasure - hating spirit . On the contrary , there is no boredom , no misery to equal the pursuit of ...
They merely restrict the circle from which regenera- tion can come . I say this - I hope you will believe me - in no Puritan or pleasure - hating spirit . On the contrary , there is no boredom , no misery to equal the pursuit of ...
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Contents
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA | 3 |
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS DEBATE | 51 |
MODERNISM VS FUNDAMENTALISM IN RELIGION | 87 |
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| Title | Contemporary Forum: American Speeches on Twentieth-century Issues |
| Author | Ernest J. Wrage |
| Editors | Ernest J. Wrage, Barnet Baskerville |
| Publisher | Harper, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 376 pages |
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