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When he delivered himself of a sage maiden address before the Oxford Union last spring (TIME, Mar. 3), young Mr. Churchill?named for his grandfather Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-95), fiery Conservative orator???was conscious that he was making his first steps along the path to statesmanship. Capitalizing his youth rather than allowing it to be a handicap to him, as did the younger Pitt and the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, young Mr. Churchill is visiting the U. S. on a lecture tour. Whig-Clio Hall at Princeton was his first engagement. There he gave his address "The British...
...Woodstock, Ill., there is a boys' school, a collection of retired farmers, a prison. In the prison in the year 1895 sat a hot-blooded orator??? of 40. He was Eugene Victor Debs, labor leader. He was in jail for the violation of an injunction. Back of this event was the story of an Indiana grocery clerk, a locomotive fireman, who became the organizer of the American Railway Union, who twice made the nation feel the fist of unionized labor. The second time was the great strike against the Pullman Co. in 1894 when President Cleveland had to despatch troops...
...recent weeks, Signor Mussolini has appeared in TIME chiefly as an orator???in his own words...
Thus Mr. Depew began one of those speeches that have made him America's after-dinner orator???the great postprandial patriarch of the Nation...
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