Word: speak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Sept. 11 issue, p. 68, . . . you speak of Germany's Deutschland Uber Alles as being one of its hymns of might. You're wrong. It is anything but that. It is a hymn of German unity, written by a liberal-minded German professor about 1841 and he promptly lost his academic position, travelled incognito from door to door begging his bread. The poem really sets limits to the geographical boundary of Germany...
...People. Perhaps excepting Adolf Hitler, no man of his time knew so well how to read what he saw, guide his acts by what he read. And the People watched the President. Of all the great peoples on earth, only they were utterly free to look, listen, judge, speak. Men and women called upon their President to be statesman, peacemaker, warrior. He was none of these. As in no other week since he entered the White House, he was the President of a political democracy, a ruling servant who could safely do no more, go no farther down his chosen...
...office of Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring. A few paces down the hall is the office of Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson. Their lairs might as well be in separate buildings. For Messrs. Woodring and Johnson never visit each other. Only when absolutely necessary do they speak to each other. When official business requires them to communicate, they do so in writing or through harried subordinates. Mr. Johnson despises Mr. Woodring. Mr. Woodring distrusts and despises Mr. Johnson, who for 27 months has gunned for Mr. Woodring...
...Demosthenes Arosemena of Panama polished up a speech of welcome, the U. S. got busy backstage. Casually, as if its perfect timing were just a happy coincidence, the New York World's Fair put on a Pan American Day, at which, by chance, Cordell Hull was scheduled to speak. In the Fair's Court of Peace, Secretary of State Hull gave a quiet, drawling speech in favor of justice, fair dealing, mutual respect, cooperation, solidarity. A better showman was New York's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, colorful Latin and good American, who called Pan America "a democracy...
Wild, Hopper, Emerson Speak...