Word: soapboxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech, once inaugurated a campaign which has pretty much driven stuttering comedians from the cinema. Its Ephphatha Club, named for the command ("be opened") by which Christ cured the stutterer, has loosened some remarkable tongues, including two opera singers and a young man who celebrated his emancipation with a soapbox speech in Union Square...
...result of such tinkering was almost as complete a disaster for All Quiet on the Western Front as even Nazis could have wished. Hard to spot were any restored cuts. The historical newsreel was a separate show. The strident commentator, harshly sounding off in the worst tradition of Russian soapbox films, demolished each of the picture's high-voltage, moving climaxes as efficiently as if a 12-inch shell had ripped through the screen...
...years ago Labormaster John L. Lewis, after long study of the meat industry, slapped his paunch impatiently and sent his No. 1 soapbox fireball, Van A. Bittner, to organize Chicago's 24,000 packinghouse workers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Last weekend, two years of patient preparation matured in a mass meeting in the Chicago Coliseum. John Lewis was ready to move against Armour, second packer in the Big Four. In 17 Armour plants from St. Paul to Los Angeles to Birmingham, Ala. to Milwaukee, the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee had either been named sole bargaining agent...
...People, a radio program which sells Sanka Coffee, is anybody's and everybody's soapbox. Since radio's No. 1 schmalz*artist, Phillips Lord (Seth Parker), concocted it more than two years ago, about 1,000 human odds and ends have said their pieces during its half-hour broadcasts. An assorted few: Eleanor Roosevelt, Battling Nelson, Don Budge, Mrs. Dutch Schultz, the postmaster of Santa Claus, Ind., Tom Mooney...
...farther. Although most U. S. school officials expect their teachers to stay out of politics and economic conflicts. Dr. Alexander announced his college would award scholarships next term to the two students who had been most active politically and socially. Credit will be given for work in organizing unions, soapbox speaking, electioneering for any political party-left. centre or right. If colleges can subsidize athletes, said he, they can "encourage the socially conscious student...