Word: expounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need be, will quietly turn round to step once more over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess Liberty!" finally bowed last week to the mob. From a Cabinet meeting at Bolzano amid Italy's war games (see p. 21), the Dictator announced that Italy will expound before the League Council this week the troubled history of Italo-Ethiopian relations for the past 50 years "depicting Ethiopia as she is in her chaotic condition of retrograde slaveholding tribes with non-existent central power...
...Cambridge and a cousin of Lord Weir, once worked for Westinghouse in India, now has his swank abode in London and contrives to rent his ideas for fat fees. In 1934 the Alberta Government which was thrown out last week paid him $30,000 to go to Calgary and expound views which they proceeded to ignore but which fired High School Principal William Aberhart and his Prophetic Bible Institute, spurred them on to victory. Major Douglas last week was still technically under contract to the Government of Alberta and Messiah Aberhart has said, "Though...
Huey Long quoted from the Bible, tried to look up his quotation in the Book of Hosea, found it was not there. So he expounded some other passages instead. Then he asked how many Senators had read the Schechter case decision. Only Idaho's Borah held up his hand. Thereupon Senator Long proceeded to expound...
...plenty of everything except money, and since only $5,250,000,000 worth of currency is in daily circulation, he reasons that an additional two billion worth of greenbacks would be amply covered by the nine billion gold & silver reserve in the Treasury. To hear Father Coughlin expound this theory, 18,000 New Yorkers packed into Madison Square Garden's Auditorium. Just before the meeting the box office dropped the price of $2 seats to 50?, thus ruining speculators who had loaded up. Nevertheless, an overflow crowd of 5,000 was waiting before loudspeakers in the basement...
...Manhattan last week there arrived a man with a message. A tall, billiard-ball-pated, 46-year-old Negro named Garland Anderson, he was ready to expound his message gratis for five nights in Town Hall, then proceed to Boston, Philadelphia and anywhere else his message was wanted. A leaflet announced that Garland Anderson's ''World Tour" was sponsored by Very Rev. Richard ("Dick") Sheppard, Canon of St. Paul's, Chaplain to King George V. Further, Garland Anderson claimed the backing of Sir John Simon, icy British Foreign Minister. Less impressively, his New York sponsors were...