Word: oratore
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When people wonder, their leaders speak. First to speak up last week was Adolf Hitler. One afternoon he appeared unexpectedly before a hand-picked Nazi audience in Berlin's Sportspalast and strode jauntily out on the platform. He looked chipper and fit. He had a fresh haircut, his mustache...
Yet undergraduates were quick to resent intimations that they were yellow or lacking in patriotism. On Class Day late in June, the entire Senior Class, dressed in caps and gowns and seated in the Stadium for Class Day exercises, loudly booed the 1915 Ivy Orator when he said, "We were...
But even the CRIMSON, which only a week before had editorially opposed all defense measures as constituting steps toward war, published on Commencement day an editorial, which while castigating the Ivy Orator's remarks, nevertheless admitted that some defense steps might be necessary.
* Excerpt: ". . . And here is this orator telling you that democracy is all through and that liberty is decadent. . . . When are you going to laugh, Americans? When is the great, hard, angry, shouting, razzberry laugh of the American people going to yell? . . ."
Wednesday night, a weary Willkie flopped down beside the radio to hear Halleck's nominating speech. He listened while Halleck pleaded his cause, told the story of Wendell Willkie, who had been born 48 years ago to a lawyer mother and a lawyer father in Elwood, Ind., now wanted...