Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politically, Mr. Curtis is a man of the party was their faithful watchman. He was an indifferent speaker. He is no orator today; seldom does he speak from the floor. It is in the party caucuses, in the committee rooms, in the cloakrooms that he patches up troubles, puts through legislation. His friends are many; his personality vexes few; the public is not conscious...
...Senator Walter F. George of Georgia was the other speaker." This fact was noted at the bottom of a long column of the New York Times last week. And who could the speaker be, when one of the ablest Senators from the South was merely the other? The speaker was the head of the English Department of Vanderbilt University ?Dr. Edwin Mims by name. He is the author of a book* which raised a controversy. In his speech last week before the Southern Society in Manhattan, he reiterated his side of that controversy. It is now time, he said...
...days and nights speaker Trifkovitch of the National Congress watched over the Great Leader, then fainted from exhaustion...
...order that they may attend Bible classes elsewhere but on school time; and what with new anti-Evolution bills coming up in Arkansas and other state legislatureshow far the Fundamentalist determination to reform the country extends. News from Atlanta, Ga., contained a hint of notable latitude. There the loudest speaker of all Fundamentaldom, Dr. John Roach Straton of the Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, had been imported to address the mother chapter of "The Supreme Kingdom," a high-powered crusading fraternity founded last winter (TIME, Feb. 1) with the paid assistance of Organizer Edward Young Clarke, who built...
Colonel Charles W. Furlong, famous lecturer and traveler and many times a speaker at the Union, will again deliver his illustrated lecture, "The Passing of the Old West...