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Word: oratore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Peace Jitters." In far from bucolic Wall Street, meanwhile, war babies stocks sagged heavily as traders, apprehensive of peace proposals Orator Hitler might make at Danzig, did a little quick profit taking, then spun the dials of their radio sets to hear the Führer. "It was a market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Seven Years War? | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Orator Hitler spoke in the medieval Artushof (Guildhall), introduced by No. 1 Danzig Nazi Albert Forster. "We have only this one wish," Hitler told Danzig, "that the Almighty God, who has blessed our arms, will now perhaps give other peoples comprehension of how useless this war . . . will be ... and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Seven Years War? | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Experience. Historic sessions were no novelty for Mr. Churchill. For 37 of his 65 years he has been a member of Parliament, a steady dweller of the eight acres of stone where more good things have been said, and more windy platitudes expounded, than anywhere else on earth-with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vision, Vindication | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

In the background was another Democrat-Peter Goelet Gerry of Rhode Island, no orator but a great conniver. At his home the President's opponents met secretly, unsuspected. And another Democrat headed the Judiciary Committee which had the bill in charge: Ashurst of Arizona. That elegant obfuscator contributed nobly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Revolt in the Desert | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

As an orator, George Truett has been compared with Bryan, Henry Grady, the great Baptist Evangelist Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Last week, after his 50,000 Baptists had paraded down Atlanta's Peachtree Street, with flags, bands and detachments of troops.* Baptist Truett opened the Alliance congress in the baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Messengers in Atlanta | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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