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When Jim Reed retired in 1929, an acid flavor, very American, went out of U.S. political life. Bill Borah was a greater orator. But none could surpass Jim Reed in righteous anger or in-as newsmen at the time called it-the "rhinestone rhythm" of his speech. He was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Death of a Fighter | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

The Lion is thick-maned Arturo Ales-sandri, 76, Chile's most formidable orator,* and its President from 1920 to 1925 and from 1932 to 1938. Fortnight ago he was elected Senator from Talca.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Lion in the Senate | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

Plain Man. The old man was not a great orator; but the U.S. always stopped and listened when he spoke. He was not an impressive figure of a statesman: his baggy, old-fashioned suit was topped by a limp string of bow tie; his droopy eyelids, under bushy brows, made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last of the Willful Men | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

On stage, a rake-voiced orator tripped through his garden of adjectives. The man he was describing sat amidst the delegates below, hunched forward in his chair, sneaking bites from a hot dog and sips from a paper cup of soda pop, paying no more attention to the routine speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Missouri Compromise | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

At the honor society's annual public meeting, an event dating back to 1782, in Fogg Museum yesterday, Radcliffe's President Wilbur K. Jordan was the orator, Winfield Scott, of Providence, the poet. Education must be the chief factor in attainment of a "free" society" of "free men," the next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Honor Group Chooses 7 of '44 | 6/30/1944 | See Source »

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