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Hysteria from Moscow. Wanted as badly by the Spanish Government as Laval was wanted by France was a commuter who stepped off a plane in Paris last week. Plain, plump Dolores Ibarruri, 50, better known as La Pasionaria ("The Passion Flower") and Republican Spain's most uninhibited orator, was...
Anthony Eden, usually no great orator, outdid himself and brought his audience up cheering. When he spoke of peace machinery, he rotated his fists; when he spoke of war, he thrust them rigidly downward. His best (and final) lines: "In the last six terrible years, unnumbered men have died to...
One more step was necessary: the newly minted politician must find a political party. Hitler found it in the German Workers' Party, a tiny group which the Bavarian Reichswehr officers had sent him to observe. He became member No. 7 of the little party which was later to become...
Up rose Michigan's erect and greying Arthur Vandenberg, the Senate's other San Francisco delegate. Arthur Vandenberg is an accomplished and resounding orator. His usual custom is to pile his desk high with green-bound copies of the Congressional Record, lay his carefully prepared manuscript on top...
...already becoming known in Michigan political circles (his own listing in the 1920-21 Who's Who stated: "Widely known as a popular and political orator"). Politicos urged him to run for this office or that. Biding his time, Vandenberg stuck to his prose-which was oratorical, occasionally thunderous, and often adorned with archaic words. (He still writes with a dictionary on one side of his typewriter and a Bible on the other...