"until 1945, when he became secretary of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for a year. He was associated with the ICAR through its initial years and made huge contributions to this pioneering organisation which was responsible for the Green Revolution in India. In 1946, he was appointed as the Deputy Commissioner of Delhi, when India was on the eve of independence. In 1947 he was in charge of the entire function where Jawaharlal Nehru delivered his famous ""Tryst with destiny"" speech. As Deputy Commissioner, he helped persons uprooted by the Partition of India resettle, and then in 1949"
"Chance for Peace speech The Chance for Peace speech, also known as the Cross of Iron speech, was an address given by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 16, 1953, shortly after the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Speaking only three months into his presidency, Eisenhower likened arms spending to stealing from the people, and evoked William Jennings Bryan in describing ""humanity hanging from a cross of iron."" Although Eisenhower, a former military man, spoke against increased military spending, the Cold War deepened during his administration and political pressures for increased military spending mounted. By the time he"
"occasions include ""One hundred years later"", ""We can never be satisfied"", ""With this faith"", ""Let freedom ring"", and ""free at last"". King was the sixteenth out of eighteen people to speak that day, according to the official program. Among the most quoted lines of the speech are ""I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!"" According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the"
"Abraham Lincoln used tricola in many of his speeches. His Gettysburg Address has the following phrase: ""We cannot dedicate – we cannot consecrate – we cannot hallow..."" Lincoln wrote in his second inaugural address, ""with malice toward none, with charity toward all, with firmness in the right..."", which became the most famous expression in the speech. Winston Churchill also used the device frequently, perhaps most famously in August 1940 when referring to the Battle of Britain with the line ""Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."" In this instance, a"
"Restatement of Policy on Germany ""Restatement of Policy on Germany"" is a speech by James F. Byrnes, the United States Secretary of State, held in Stuttgart on September 6, 1946. Also known as the ""Speech of hope"" it set the tone of future US policy as it repudiated the Morgenthau Plan economic policies and with its message of a change to a policy of economic reconstruction gave the Germans hope for the future. The Western powers' worst fear by now was that the poverty and hunger envisioned by the Morgenthau Plan would drive the Germans to Communism. American Occupation General"
"help people across the world help themselves in the struggle against ignorance, illness and despair. Harry S. Truman's 1949 inaugural address Harry S. Truman's inaugural address, known as the Four Point Speech, was delivered by United States president Harry S. Truman, on Thursday, January 20, 1949. In a world only recently emerged from the shadow of World War II, in which freedom and human rights seemed under threat from many sides, this was Truman's response. He challenged both Democrats and Republicans to assist people around the world struggling for freedom and human rights; to continue programs for world economic recovery;"
"Cross of Gold speech The Cross of Gold speech was delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States Representative from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896. In the address, Bryan supported bimetallism or ""free silver"", which he believed would bring the nation prosperity. He decried the gold standard, concluding the speech, ""you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"". Bryan's address helped catapult him to the Democratic Party's presidential nomination; it is considered one of the greatest political speeches in American history. For twenty years, Americans had been bitterly divided over"
"peacetime military budgets that became established during his administration have continued for half a century. Chance for Peace speech The Chance for Peace speech, also known as the Cross of Iron speech, was an address given by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 16, 1953, shortly after the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Speaking only three months into his presidency, Eisenhower likened arms spending to stealing from the people, and evoked William Jennings Bryan in describing ""humanity hanging from a cross of iron."" Although Eisenhower, a former military man, spoke against increased military spending, the Cold War deepened"
"Infamy Speech The Infamy Speech was a speech delivered by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a Joint Session of the US Congress on December 8, 1941, one day after the Empire of Japan's attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the Japanese declaration of war on the United States and the British Empire. The name derives from the first line of the speech: Roosevelt describing the previous day as ""a date which will live in infamy"". The speech is also commonly referred to as the ""Pearl Harbor Speech"". Within an hour of the speech,"
"Cornerstone Speech The Cornerstone Speech, also known as the Cornerstone Address, was an oration delivered by Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861. Delivered extemporaneously a few weeks before the Confederate States of America would start the American Civil War by firing on the U.S. Army at Fort Sumter, Stephens' speech applauded white supremacy, defended the enslavement of Africans and African Americans, explained the fundamental differences between the constitutions of the Confederacy and that of the United States, enumerated contrasts between U.S. and Confederate ideologies and beliefs, and laid out the"
"Quarantine Speech The Quarantine Speech was given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 5, 1937 in Chicago (on the occasion of the dedication of the bridge between north and south outer Lake Shore Drive), calling for an international ""quarantine"" against the ""epidemic of world lawlessness"" by aggressive nations as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and non-intervention that was prevalent at the time. The speech intensified America's isolationist mood, causing protest by non-interventionists and foes to intervene. No countries were directly mentioned in the speech, although it was interpreted as referring to the Empire of"
"of the world's peoples will march on over them to freedom!"" In the spring of 1949, he spoke at the World Congress of the Partisans of Peace in Paris, saying to the large crowd: ""Leading this new colonial imperialism comes my own native land built by my father's toil and blood, the United States. The United States is a great nation; rich by grace of God and prosperous by the hard work of its humblest citizens ... Drunk with power we are leading the world to hell in a new colonialism with the same old human slavery which once ruined"
"1950 State of the Union Address The 1950 State of the Union Address was given by Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, on Wednesday, January 4, 1950. He spoke to the 81st United States Congress, to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. It was a joint session, and the 160th address given. He said, ""Our aim for a peaceful, democratic world of free peoples will be achieved in the long run, not by force of arms, but by an appeal to the minds and hearts of men."" He also said, ""Our"
"James F. Byrnes, then United States Secretary of State, held in Stuttgart on September 6, 1946. Also known as the ""Speech of hope"" it set the tone of future US policy as it repudiated the Morgenthau Plan economic policies and with its message of change to a policy of economic reconstruction gave the Germans hope for the future. Herbert Hoover's situation reports from 1947, and ""A Report on Germany"" also served to help change occupation policy. The Western powers' worst fear by now was that the poverty and hunger would drive the Germans to Communism. General Lucius Clay stated ""There"
"1927 State of the Union Address The 1927 State of the Union Address was given on Tuesday, December 6, 1927. It was given by Calvin Coolidge, the 30th United States President, to the 70th United States Congress. He said, ""For many years the Federal Government has been building a system of dikes along the Mississippi River for protection against high water. During the past season the lower States were overcome by a most disastrous flood. Many thousands of square miles were inundated a great many lives were lost, much livestock was drowned, and a very heavy destruction of property was"
"no agreement had been reached. ""I'd have broken the plates over your damn heads,"" Bunche answered. For achieving the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Bunche received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. He continued to work for the United Nations, mediating in other strife-torn regions, including the Congo, Yemen, Kashmir, and Cyprus. Bunche was appointed Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1968. Bunche was an active and vocal supporter of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. He participated in the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King gave his ""I Have a Dream"" speech, and also in the Selma"
"Harry S. Truman's 1949 inaugural address Harry S. Truman's inaugural address, known as the Four Point Speech, was delivered by United States president Harry S. Truman, on Thursday, January 20, 1949. In a world only recently emerged from the shadow of World War II, in which freedom and human rights seemed under threat from many sides, this was Truman's response. He challenged both Democrats and Republicans to assist people around the world struggling for freedom and human rights; to continue programs for world economic recovery; to strengthen international organizations; and to draw on the expertise of the United States to"
"and George H. W. Bush; British Prime Ministers Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, and Sir John Major; Polish President Lech Wałęsa; and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. National Churchill Museum The National Churchill Museum (formerly the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library), located on the Westminster College campus in Fulton, Missouri, United States, commemorates the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill. In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous in the Westminster Historic Gymnasium. In it was the line: ""From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."" This sentence caused the oration to"
"National Churchill Museum The National Churchill Museum (formerly the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library), located on the Westminster College campus in Fulton, Missouri, United States, commemorates the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill. In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous in the Westminster Historic Gymnasium. In it was the line: ""From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."" This sentence caused the oration to become known as the ""Iron Curtain"" speech. ""Sinews of Peace"" heralded the beginning of the Cold War. The National Churchill Museum comprises three distinct but"
"a variety of notable speakers in its history. Martin Luther King Jr. voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War on April 4, 1967. Rev. Jesse Jackson gave the eulogy for Jackie Robinson's funeral service. Other speakers include President Bill Clinton, Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, and Desmond Tutu. Former senior ministers include James A. Forbes, William Sloane Coffin, and Harry Emerson Fosdick. Butler was born in Hawaii and is the mother of three children. She is divorced. Amy Butler (minister) Rev. Dr. Amy Butler, ""Pastor Amy,"" is the 7th Senior Minister at The Riverside Church in New York"
"end of his life. On May 21, 1944, he addressed almost one and a half million people in Central Park, New York, at the annual ""I Am an American Day"" event, where newly naturalized citizens swore the Pledge of Allegiance. He stated that all Americans were immigrants who had come to America in search of liberty. Liberty, he said, was not located in America's constitutions, laws, and courts, but in the hearts of the people. In what would become the speech's most quoted passage, Hand asked: What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only"
"was advocating for the rights of the common working-class man. The song was widely misinterpreted as jingoistic, and in connection with the 1984 presidential campaign became the subject of considerable folklore. In 1984, conservative columnist George Will attended a Springsteen concert and then wrote a column praising Springsteen's work ethic. Six days after the column was printed, in a campaign rally in Hammonton, New Jersey, Reagan said, ""America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts. It rests in the message of hope in the songs of a man so many young Americans admire—New Jersey's own, Bruce Springsteen."" Two"
"not only the soul of the Confederacy but also of that Jim Crow South that arose from the ashes of the Confederacy."" Jaffa equated the racism of Stephens and the Confederacy to that of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, stating the two were not that different in principle: Cornerstone Speech The Cornerstone Speech, also known as the Cornerstone Address, was an oration delivered by Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861. Delivered extemporaneously a few weeks before the Confederate States of America would start the American Civil War by firing on"
"On 6 September 1946 United States Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes made the famous speech Restatement of Policy on Germany, also known as the Stuttgart speech, where he amongst other things repudiated the Morgenthau plan-influenced policies and gave the West Germans hope for the future. Reports such as The President's Economic Mission to Germany and Austria helped to show the U.S. public how bad the situation in Germany really was. The next improvement came in July 1947, when after lobbying by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Generals Clay and Marshall, the Truman administration decided that economic recovery in"
"Social Security System should be developed into the main reliance of our people for basic protection against the economic hazards of old-age, unemployment, and illness."" 1950 State of the Union Address The 1950 State of the Union Address was given by Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, on Wednesday, January 4, 1950. He spoke to the 81st United States Congress, to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. It was a joint session, and the 160th address given. He said, ""Our aim for a peaceful, democratic world of free peoples will be"
"St Crispin's Day Speech The St Crispin's Day speech is from Shakespeare's history play ""Henry V"", in Scene iii 18–67. In the speech, which fell on Saint Crispin's Day, Henry V urged his men — who were vastly outnumbered by the French — to recall how the English had previously inflicted great defeats upon the French. The speech by Shakespeare has been famously portrayed by Laurence Olivier to raise British spirits during the Second World War, and by Kenneth Branagh in the 1989 film ""Henry V"", and it made famous the phrase ""band of brothers."" The play was written around"
"1947 Constitution of Japan were also inspired from that phrase. The aircraft carrier has as its ship's motto the phrase ""shall not perish"". U.S. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts wrote of the address and its enduring presence in American culture after Lincoln's assassination in April 1865: ""That speech, uttered at the field of Gettysburg ... and now sanctified by the martyrdom of its author, is a monumental act. In the modesty of his nature he said 'the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; but it can never forget what they did here.' He was mistaken."
"Gettysburg Address The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is one of the best-known speeches in American history. Although not the day's primary speech, Lincoln's carefully crafted address came to be seen as one of the greatest and most influential statements of American national purpose. In just 271 words, beginning with"
"Sportpalast speech The ""Sportpalast"" speech () or total war speech was a speech delivered by German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at the Berlin Sportpalast to a large but carefully selected audience on 18 February 1943 calling for a total war, as the tide of World War II was turning against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies. It is considered the most famous of Joseph Goebbels's speeches. The speech was the first public admission by the Nazi leadership that Germany faced serious dangers. Goebbels exhorted the German people to continue the war even though it would be long and difficult because—as"
"in ""Look"" magazine titled, ""Suppose God is Black?"" It was the first time in the United States a national politician condemned apartheid in a widely circulated publication. The address is often considered Kennedy's greatest and most famous oration. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. called it ""his greatest speech."" Frank Taylor of the ""London Daily Telegraph"" ""the most stirring and memorable address ever to come from a foreigner in South Africa."" Ian Robertson labeled it ""the most important speech of Kennedy's life."" The address was inspirational for many anti-Apartheid activists, including the imprisoned Nelson Mandela. The phrase ""ripple of hope"" has become"
"inflicted upon the inhabitants."" So he talks about flood control. 1927 State of the Union Address The 1927 State of the Union Address was given on Tuesday, December 6, 1927. It was given by Calvin Coolidge, the 30th United States President, to the 70th United States Congress. He said, ""For many years the Federal Government has been building a system of dikes along the Mississippi River for protection against high water. During the past season the lower States were overcome by a most disastrous flood. Many thousands of square miles were inundated a great many lives were lost, much livestock"
"Declaration of Conscience The Declaration of Conscience was a speech made by U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith on June 1, 1950, less than four months after Senator Joe McCarthy's ""Wheeling Speech,"" on February 9, 1950. Her speech was endorsed by six other liberal-to-moderate Republicans. In it, she criticized national leadership and called for the country, the United States Senate, and the Republican Party to re-examine the tactics used by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and (without naming him) Senator Joe McCarthy. She stated the basic principles of ""Americanism"" were: Smith voiced concern that those who exercised those beliefs at"
"""a legendary man whose words and music will help define the history of our nation."" Just minutes before the President's statement was released, he joined a crowd of thousands to sing Berlin's ""God Bless America"" at a luncheon in Boston. Former President Ronald Reagan, who costarred in Berlin's 1943 musical ""This Is the Army,"" said, ""Nancy and I are deeply saddened by the death of a wonderfully talented man whose musical genius delighted and stirred millions and will live on forever."" Morton Gould, the composer and conductor who was president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP),"