Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first speaker of the day-of any of the five convention days-advanced to the microphone, floor and galleries began filling up, and the convention came alive. Photographers jostled in belligerent knots, each holding a camera to his eye like a unicorn adjusting his horn. Heat and humidity rose. Coats came off and the face of the crowd moved with the urgent fluttering of thousands of cardboard fans. Within minutes it was hot enough to grow orchids...
...shortness of time was on the side of the House wreckers, and they set to work with a will. By their silence; Speaker Joe Martin and Majority Leader Charley Halleck did much to encourage them, little to whip them into line...
...clock Saturday night, Bob Taft, taking things firmly in hand, walked over to the House cloakroom to talk turkey to Speaker Martin. While Martin recessed the House, G.O.P. leaders trooped in to his office and slammed the door. On the floor, House members broke into song; a barbershop quartet sang Let the Rest of the World...
...every commencement speaker knows, the sure-fire approach is to bewail the failure of your own generation, and then in ringing tones challenge the next one to do better. Few speakers have more tellingly indicted the old or more specifically counseled the new than Atomic Energy Boss David Lilienthal, addressing the University of Virginia's graduating class last week. Said...
...significant comment on Lovett's many important chores. For 16 years he lived at Jane Addams' famed Hull House in Chicago, but his recollections are those of a friendly, casual onlooker instead of the devoted worker he was. He aided all sorts of liberal causes as writer, speaker and organizer, usually with more energy and enthusiasm than his petition-signing, hat-passing colleagues, but this account of his impulsive championship of the underdog reads like a genial assurance that he couldn't say no in a good cause...