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Speeches and Lectures File, 1939-1978 (continued)
4 May, "America Was Promises," CBS broadcast See also Container 33, America Was Promises
24 Nov., "Art and Our Warring World," NBC broadcast
1941, 13 Dec., "The Bill of Rights Now," Metropolitan Opera Program
1942
14 Feb., "This Is War"
1 Mar., "Propaganda: Good and Bad," NBC Broadcast
14 Mar., Remarks on NBC, "Inter-American University of the Air"
13 June, Closed circuit broadcast on gasoline and rubber shortages
13 Sept., Intermission remarks on "CBS Summer Symphony"
May-June, Proposals for NBC, "Inter-American University of the Air"
1943
21 Aug., "For This We Fight," NBC broadcast
25 Dec., "The Meaning of Peace," Metropolitan Opera Program
1944
25 July, "It Is What We Are," Edwin C. Hill radio program
2 Dec., Remarks on the Metropolitan Opera Program
1945
Feb.-Aug., "Our Foreign Policy," NBC broadcast
Programs
1-10
BOX 44 11-25
(2 folders)
May-Aug., Armed Forces Radio Service programs
(2 folders)
16 June, "Report From San Francisco," NBC broadcast
16 Dec., "Can We Educate for World Peace?" WGN-Mutual broadcast
Eulogy for Paul Valery, [1945?]
1946, 25 Sept., Remarks on UNESCO, NBC broadcast
1951, 30 Nov., Intermission remarks on Bernal Diaz's The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
BOX 45 1960, 30 May, "The National Purpose," WBC broadcast, See also Container 37, "We Have Purpose, We All Know It," Life
1962, 2 Aug., "The Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren," CBS telecast
1976, 4 July, On the American Revolution
Speeches
1939
12 Oct., "The American Experience," dedication of the Hispanic Room in the Library of Congress
19 Oct., "Libraries in the Contemporary Crisis," Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa.
19 Nov., Remarks at the laying of the cornerstone of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.
"The Freedom to End Freedom," Survey Associates
1940
Jan., "The Obligation of Libraries in a Democracy," District of Columbia Library Association
22 Feb., "The Librarian: His Name and Nature," Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
9 Apr., "Writers and Scholars," American Philosophical Society
31 May, "The Librarian and the Democratic Process," American Library Association, Cincinnati, Ohio
May, Dedication of Columbus mural in the Hispanic Room of the Library of Congress
10 Sept., International Student Service, International House, New York, N.Y.
13 Oct., New York and Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, Brooklyn, N.Y. See Container 24, The American Cause
23 Oct., Forum of the New York Herald Tribune See Container 24, The American Cause
19 Nov., "The Duty of Freedom," Printing House Craftsmen
1941
12 Feb., "Lincoln in This Day," Canadian Club, Ottawa, Canada
3 Apr., "New Land: New World," Common Council for American Unity
7 June, "To the Class of '41," Commencement address, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.
11 June, "Prophets of Doom," Commencement address, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Penn.
BOX 46 16 June, Commencement address, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
19 June, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
10 Sept., Message to P.E.N. Club, London, England
10 Sept., U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children
20 Nov., Council for Democracy, Boston, Mass.
2 Dec., "A Superstition Is Destroyed," dinner in honor of Edward R. Murrow
15 Dec., Dedication of Thomas Jefferson Room in the Library of Congress
1942
11 Feb., Urban League
13 Mar., Acceptance of death mask of Lord Lothian for the Library of Congress
19 Mar., Freedom House, New York, N.Y., address
14 Apr., Russian War Relief luncheon, New York
17 Apr., American Society of Newspaper Editors, New York, N.Y.
20 Apr., "The Psychological Front," Associated Press, New York, N.Y.
6 May, American Booksellers Association, New York, N.Y.
11 May, "What Government Asks of Broadcasters," National Association of Broadcasters, Cleveland, Ohio
May, "The Image of Victory," Commencement address, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
17 June, National Retail Dry Goods Association, Chicago, Ill.
26 June, "Toward an Intellectual Offensive," American Library Association, Milwaukee, Wisc.
BOX 47 30 July, "American Opinion and the War," Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
15 Oct., Pour La Victorie dinner, New York, N.Y.
22 Oct., Boston Book Fair, Boston, Mass.
4 Dec., New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Boston, Mass.
10 Dec., Dinner in honor of George W. Norris
1943
8 Feb., Council on Foreign Relations, Chicago, Ill.
Mar., "The Act of the Imagination," University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
28 May, "The Practice of Citizenship," Commencement address, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y.
22 Aug., Commencement address, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
1 Nov., Sinai Temple Forum, Chicago, Ill.
12 Dec., National Woman's Party
1944
24 Feb., "The American Experience," American Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y.
27 Feb., Nation dinner in honor of Freda Kirchwey
19 May, "The Power of the Spoken Word," American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters
7 June, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass.
28 June, Launching of the Liberty Ship "Rubén Dario"
BOX 48 31 July, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc.
8 Oct., "The People Are Indivisible," Nation conference
16 Oct., Community War Fund
3 Nov., Civil Service Assembly, Chicago, Ill.
13 Nov., "Arts, Letters and Democracy"
28 Nov., Freedom House, New York, N.Y., award
12 Dec., Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
1945
4 Jan., "Information for a People's Peace," United Nations Information Board
10 Jan., "Popular Relations and the Peace," Association of American Colleges, Atlantic City, N.J.
18 Feb., "The American Certainty," Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, New York, N.Y.
28 Feb., "The Problem of Developing Public Understanding of the Proposals for United Nations Organization," Americans United for World Organization
3 Apr., Introductory remarks regarding the United Nations
21 Apr., Americans United for World Organization and The Free World Association of Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.
31 May, Commencement address, National College of Education
7 Aug., Washington Advertising Club, Washington, D.C.
27 Dec., New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y.
1946, 11 Jan., National Conference of the Sciences, Professions, Arts and White Collar Fields, New York, N.Y.
[1953?], On The Irresponsibles, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
1955
16 June, Harvard Alumni Association, Cambridge, Mass.
20 Nov., Commemoration of the Centennial of the death of Adam Mickiewicz, Hunter College, New York, N.Y.
1956
6 June, Commencement address, Smith College, Northhampton, Mass.
14 June, Dinner in honor of Felix Frankfurter, Somerset Club, Boston, Mass.
1958, 22 Apr., Address on J.B., Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1960, 7 Oct., Yale Alumni Convocation, New Haven, Conn.
1963, 22 Feb., University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
BOX 49 1965
May, Dedication of Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass.
June, Commencement address, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
19 July, Memorial ceremony for Adlai E. Stevenson, United Nations, New York, N.Y.
3 Dec., Address in honor of Roger Baldwin
1966
11 May, Pulitzer Prize awards, New York, N.Y.
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