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Another sign of the time: a British suffragette, one Mrs. Pankhurst, was barred from the use of a Harvard building for a speech. Some undergraduates protested, and Mrs. Pankhurst, hailed by one (male) enthusiast as the most proficient orator of the day, ended by speaking in Brattle Hall, now the...
But would the Liberals give way peaceably to the Conservatives? Last week Colombia's voters reaffirmed the truce by electing as Lleras' successor. Conservative Guillermo León Valencia, 53, with an overwhelming 1,643,020 votes. Valencia is a far different politician from the patient, persuasive Lleras...
Litanies of Response. As an orator, Mussolini was incomparable (until Hitler began his blacker magic). He developed an incantatory style capable of evoking litanies of response from his audience.
I like him very much." Shuman also liked Ezra Taft Benson, Eisenhower's controversial Agriculture Secretary, once called him "a very conscientious man." Bull-Voiced Orator. Agriculture Secretary Freeman is the sort of fellow who lives what he preaches. Every couple of hours he pours himself a big snort...
Schwarz became a skilled anti-Communist orator, speaking from the pulpit (long a lay preacher, he describes himself as "a narrow-minded, Bible-believing Baptist") or on the public platform. He recalls one triumphant debate in his younger days with a Communist leader in a Sydney park: "I mentioned Dialectical...