Word: oratoric
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Many another orator followed: teacherish Thomas Kennedy; earnest Philip Murray; tough-minded Van A. Bittner; Sidney Hillman. Had Hillman chosen to reply to Lewis with equal bitterness, the fat might have been in the fire. Instead he spoke earnestly and reasonably for unity. Only grudgingly did Lewis shake Hillman'...
The most applause was reserved for Lewis. His C. I. O. men had refused to follow him over to the camp of Wendell Willkie. They accepted his resignation. But they cheered him because of the leader he had been, because he was still Labor's most effective orator, and...
Birthday. The late Robert Louis Stevenson; his goth; observed by Annie H. Ide Cockran, widow of Tammany Orator Bourke Cockran. Stevenson formally deeded it to her when she was a little girl because she was "born out of all reason on Christmas day" and hence "denied the consolation and profit...
Then for an hour he talked of the C. I. O.'s accomplishments, its dangers, its future. He warned: "If you consume your time in criticism and vituperation, you won't have an organization long." He asked for support for the new head: "A leader, no matter how...
Lank, friendly, unpretentious Bishop Tucker spent too many years (24) preaching in Japanese to be a soul-stirring orator in English, but his opening sermon touched an anxious subject. Said he: "The only way to make America Christian is to make it interested in the welfare of the world that...