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Codd, Major L.A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 4 Apr 1935, 342-354     An explanation of who the speaker does and does not represent. A description of the Army Ordnance Association and what it does. A few philosophical reflections in connection with the subject "Munitio

Owen, The most Reverend Derwyn T., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 11 Oct 1934, 57-66     The qualifications for leadership. Reasons for the need of leadership. The need for a leader to care. Reference to the matter of the drive for the Federation of Community Service to take place in Tor

Brittain, Miss Vera, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 30 Oct 1934, 81-98     The difficulty of talking in an impersonal way about one's own work and one's own views. What the speaker's book, "Testament of Youth" is all about. The book as an autobiography, not a novel. The imp

Hobbs, Frank, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 11 Apr 1935, 355-360     The visit of the D'Oyly Carte Company of the United States from Britain. The experience of the Company in New York. Contacts with British Government officials throughout the United States. The Compan

Stewart, Reginald, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 13 Dec 1934, 173-182     Music inherent in us all; fundamentally a part of our nature. Early manifestations in the Book of Genesis. Music as the real universal speech of mankind. The experience of hearing music in a concert

Kerr, Philip, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 18 Oct 1934, 67-80     The political situation, the economic situation in the Old Country today. Whether Great Britain is reasonably well-equipped to weather the storms which lie ahead. Three factors of the British recover

Norwood, Rev. Frederick, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 18 Sep 1934, 17-29     The radical changes that are taking place in parts of the world. The speaker's 16 months of travel, testing out a few great convictions which have been maturing in his mind for years. Stating his cas

Hammell, John E., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 17 Jan 1935, 197-215     The speaker as the spokesman of that great, only partially developed half continent which we call The North. The speaker's regard of himself as simply a deputy of the great army of friends and co-wor

Scroggs, William O., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 21 Mar 1935, 316-328     A discussion of the foreign policy of the New Deal in the United States. The foreign policy much less complex than the domestic policy. Some words and background on Mr. Roosevelt. The strict national

Thorndike, Dame Sybil, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 21 Feb 1935, 260-274     Some words on the theatre. The rivalry of the cinema and its anticipated effects. Some words on the theatre and the cinema together. The great need of human beings of personal expression, fulfilled i

Simpson, His Worship, Mayor James, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 10 Jan 1935, 183-196     The ever continuing evidence of a great change in the social order. A revolution in the thinking of the Prime Minister of Canada. His recent declarations before the Imperial Conference in the City of

Purvis, Arthur B., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 28 Feb 1935, 275-295     An outline of the general conditions with which we are faced in order to paint the background upon which any effort in industrial life has at this time to be superimposed. The present attack on depre

Keyes, Sir Roger, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 4 Sep 1934, 1-16     The importance of sea power in relation to the British Empire. The issue of a reduction of armaments. The ever increasing rivalry in the field of sea-borne commerce. Maintaining the British Empire as

Woodside, Professor Willson, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 27 Sep 1934, 44-56     The speaker's presence in Germany before, during, and after the Hitler Revolution and his resulting chronicles of Germany and the Nazi Revolution. The Germans as a people without a sense of humour. S

Raja-Singham, A.I., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 31 Jan 1935, 229-245     Why the speaker chose this topic. Self-determination. Different approaches that have been taken to the problem of India. Words from the Ex Lord Mayor of Calcutta and from Rabindranath Tagore, represe

Gardiner, The Hon. James Garfield, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 8 Mar 1935, 296-315     Speaking on the same subject as seven or eight years ago: "The Problems of the West." The problems of 1926-27. The trials and tribulations lived through since that time. Today confronted by the probl

Huston, Walter, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 25 Apr 1935, 361-373     The speaker's personal reminiscences, interspersed with many anecdotes pertaining to vaudeville. Memories from the speaker's childhood. Mr. Huston's family. Some words about Miss May Irwin, one of th

Moore, H. Napier, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 7 Feb 1935, 246-259     The melancholy aspects toward laughter. Relating laughter to an attribute of the lower animals, with examples. An analysis of what it is that makes people laugh, with example. The Scot's amazing self

Nye, Senator, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 15 Nov 1934, 118-136     The danger of war today greater than it was 30 days before the World War. Contemplating what we might do today in these distressing, depressing times, if we had what four years of war cost this world

Strachey, John, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 24 Jan 1935, 216-228     The causes of modern war, I.e., what seems to have caused the last war and what the speaker is bound to say seems so very rapidly to be about to case the next war, or is causing the astonishing prepa