Word: soapboxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silent queues outside a thousand polls in schools and public buildings. In the capital, as all over Falangist Spain, the election of municipal councilmen went on without any of the dash and urgency of truly free elections. There had been no posters, no slogans, no handbills, no last-minute soapbox speeches, no discussions, no parades, no cheers or boos for candidates...
...younger generation has few soapbox orators and fewer still head-in-the-clouds poets reminiscent of the generation of TIME'S editors. Beside Flaming Youth, Prohibition, Greenwich Village sofas, Gertrude Stein, and stubble-bearded Marxists, this generation probably seems like a mass-membership of the Union League Club. Youth attends church, belongs to the P.T.A., works on community programs, writes its Congressman (admittedly with tongue in cheek), will probably vote out badly governed government next year...
Cheered on by his royal father, Prince Knud, brother of Denmark's King Frederik and heir apparent to the crown, eleven-year-old Prince Ingolf set off in a 1,300-ft. soapbox derby near Copenhagen. His car hit a top speed of more than 18 m.p.h., but he finished eighth...
Begun five years ago on radio, the TV version of Meet the Press, which started in 1947, has been designed by Co-Producers Martha Rountree and Lawrence Spivak as an on-the-news soapbox where national and international figures like to spring surprises. The secret, says 34-year-old Martha Rountree, is timing. "If you have Joe McCarthy on your program in an ordinary, run-of-the-mill week, people say, 'So what?' But if you get him the night after he makes a sensational speech, everybody's spellbound...
...permit, and fined him $10. Ruled the Supreme Court (8 to 1): conviction reversed; such ordinances as New York City's are invalid because they give the police commissioner power to control "the right of citizens to speak on religious matters." ¶In 1949, Irving Feiner mounted a soapbox in Syracuse to drum up a crowd for a Young Progressive club meeting, began shrilling such comments as "President Truman is a bum," exhorted Negroes in a crowd of 70 to 80 people to fight for their rights. When a bystander said...