Word: oratore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Democrats were on their feet cheering. The gallery stormed applause. Administration Senators sat in silence, bewildered by an attack to which they had no answer. Greater than ever loomed the issue of Human Misery, now directly joined between the Senate's greatest orator and the President. Clearer than...
William Edgar Borah. Greatest Insurgent of them all, the man whose shadow from the Capitol falls farthest across the land, is thickset, long-lipped, blue-eyed William Edgar Borah of Idaho. All the world knows that he is the Senate's supreme orator, that he rides his horse "Governor...
As an orator, Mr. Borah's chief characteristics are deliberateness, earnestness and a meticulous selection of words. He speaks without notes, says ''If you don't get any new thoughts while on your feet you'd better sit down." An adroit phrase maker, he knows...
". . . If appropriating agencies continue to make their appropriations under the old, antiquated, worn-out system . . . we will find there is little, if anything, that the Government can do [toward immediate relief of unemployment]. "The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. In times of...
An able but infrequent Senate orator is muscular young Otis Ferguson Glenn of Illinois. Lately President Hoover has complained because no Republican has been rising to defend him in the Senate. And Tennessee's red-faced Senator McKellar was attacking the President with charges so hackneyed that even good...