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Word: oratore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then, Franklin Roosevelt has been engaged in an oratorical struggle with Adolf Hitler. In his last two sallies, he tried Woodrow Wilson's tactics of talking past Germany's leader to its people. Orator Hitler in his reply last week (see p. 18) did the same, seeking to widen the split in U. S. public opinion behind the U. S. President, to bolster isolationist sentiment in the U. S. by twitting Mr. Roosevelt unmercifully for Woodrow Wilson's failure at world intervention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mankind Invited | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

The naming of the Junior Ushers completes the appointments for Commencement ceremonies, with the exception of the Ivy Orator. The Orator will be chosen by May 17.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS COMMITTEE APPOINTS JUNIOR USHER CHAIRMAN | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

Taken aback, Orator Mussolini cleared his throat, changed the subject and went on, but the heart had gone out of the act. The speech over, the Blackshirts, innocent of their error and still warm with the thought of comforts to come, hurried out and treated the town to a mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Comforts to Come | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

No orator, scarcely a figure calculated to arouse much personal enthusiasm. Herr Himmler's primary function in Naziland has so far been to be neither seen nor heard but to be felt. The housewife who puts quilted covers over her telephone for fear the Gestapo can listen in on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Secret Policeman | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

His admirers call Clinton Norman Howard "The Little Giant," because he looks and spouts like old-time Orator Stephen Douglas. As superintendent of the International Reform Federation in Washington he is No. 1 U. S. reformer. His potential enemies, from Billiards to Theatre, are catalogued alphabetically in the Federation'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reformer | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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