Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the speech he pretended to be a delegate, listening to resolutions as they were read, voting "Aye" with the unseen chorus. That night he sat up late reading newspapers...
That afternoon, before breakfasting, Nominee Smith issued copies of his message to the convention (see p. 10). He read the crucial sentences aloud, emphatically. Until evening he dictated answers to congratulations, then went to play with his year-old granddaughter, Mary Adams Warner. His first speech was to be at his political alma mater, oldtime Tammany Hall...
Telegram. From Baden Baden, famed spa, a sick man telegraphed to break the deadlock. His signature read simply "Stresemann." The great Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner wired: "From the start I have regarded skeptically the attempt to establish a Ministry on the basis of a program approved beforehand by the various parties." He continued that, although it seemed "psychologically scarcely possible" for Herr Muller to forge a majority pledged to support him, he might carry on with a "Cabinet of Personages," that is to say, a government composed of distinguished party men whose parties would probably support them...
...University, even the workmen who built the library, solidly demand the inscription. I have had people come up to me in the streets with their eyes streaming tears pleading with me not to abandon the fight but to remain firm. One of Herbert Hoover's own Wartime posters read: 'If seventy million Germans wept for a thousand years they could not make disappear the human miseries they caused in Belgium and Northern France...
...United Press despatch from Paris read, last week: "Recent reports from Rumanian sources tell of sinister political efforts to diminish the importance of the 'Boy King' in the eyes of his own people. 'He is not normally developed,' some have said. 'He is deaf, does not know how to talk and stories of his brilliance are all false...