Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to add to what Henry Flury of Washington, D. C., has to say regarding G. W. P. Hunt: long time governor of Arizona. 'Unique' indeed is a public speaker, let alone a state executive who deliberately picks his nose while on the public platform. In fact unique is no word for it. 'A great humanitarian who never signed a Death Warrant' but Commitments to the Insane Asylum instead, where ex-condemned on escaping would return on their own volition because the "grub" was so good. 'The State Prison was transformed from a place...
...York's Snell (Rules Committee) stood behind his aisle table, frowning, sharpening a pencil with a blunt watch chain knife. Leader Tilson beamed at his flock and rearranged neatly typed resolutions on blue paper. The galleries, splotched with color, were long ago overflowing. Mrs. Alice Longworth, the Speaker's wife, was there, incognito, because she failed to remove her brown hat and reveal her gleaming hair...
Suddenly lights flashed on in the glass-paneled ceiling, with theatre footlight effect. Instead of a rising curtain, Speaker Longworth, with jaunty step, mounted the rostrum, struck his gavel twice upon the block and called above the din: "The House will be in order." Opposite him the hands of the big gilt clock exactly met at the top of the dial...
...Henry Sloane Coffin, of the Union Theological Seminary of New York, will be the leading speaker. After A. R. Sweezy '29 and E. W. Sexton '29 have presented the viewpoint of the undergraduates who have no part in the work of the Phillips Brooks House, Dr. Coffin will analyze the general student attitude and suggest possible means of promoting further understanding...
...Grand Rapids, Mich., might have been a pastor or Y. M. C. A. executive. But he learned the law and trod a narrow path into Congress 15 years ago. His domed forehead, neat eyeglasses and bland face are often seen presiding over the Committee of the Whole in the Speaker's absence for he is an excellent, patient parliamentarian. The other Michigan men usually vote as he suggests...