Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attracted the Democratic donkeys like an acre of fresh clover. The district is about evenly divided between labor and rural areas. And the Republican candidate was the man who had guided Pennsylvania's version of the Taft-Hartley Act through its legislature: slender, 37-year-old Franklin Lichtenwalter, Speaker of the state's House of Representatives. The Democrats figured that if they could bite off a good-sized section of normal G.O.P. pasture, they could claim a comeback trend...
...Massachusetts, Joe Martin climbed into his black Cadillac, began his usual circuit-riding around the 63 communities he represents, listened to ideas, complaints and gossip, made careful notes of it all. Speaker Martin, who might pop up as a compromise candidate in case of a complete deadlock at the Republican presidential convention, also announced that he too, like Tom Dewey and Bob Taft, would take a trip through the West. Who had suggested the tour? Some Congressmen. Any political significance? None, said poker-faced Joe Martin...
...Well, spivs,' the speaker began, 'we all know this society,' pointing at the placard labeled British League of ex-Servicemen, 'is a sham. We are Fascists and we're proud of it. I love Mosley...
...police shorthand writer, leaning against a wall, impassively took note of this incitement to violence. Three-quarters of the crowd approved it. ... Standing in the streets were ordinary working men, listening with attention and with approbation. 'That's right' they said, as the speaker told them of the folly of making war on Germany. 'That's right,' they said, as he denounced the House of Commons as an institution...
This calls for some pussyfooting. In its convention issue, for example, the Blast brushed off the issue of the day with a tactful: "The speaker touched upon one of the major convention topics-the Taft-Hartley Bill." However, such reticence pleases not only the management but also the union. It likes the coverage of union doings but does not want the paper to "tamper with union affairs...