Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening session. The big clock over the Speaker's chair in the House of Commons was a few ticks short of 9:30. The Government's most extensive socialist measure yet-nationalization of almost all of Britain's privately owned inland transport-was in the bag, and everybody knew...
...many times have I gone home a defeated man." The speaker was Olin Downes, the occasion was the final discussion session of last week's "Symposium on Music Criticism," and the speech was an extemporaneous one in answer to some statements made earlier in the day by Columbia's Professor Paul H. Lang. The New York Times' music critic sometimes was "defeated," he explained, because he felt he had left something important out of a review, or perhaps and stated an objection too strongly, or failed to emphasize some idea. Put this together with a later statement, in which Downes...
Golden First Speaker...
Commerce Secretary W. Averell Harriman, an able administrator and an adept public speaker, could probably be persuaded; but he was almost too rich. Also wealthy and able was Lewis Douglas, Ambassador to Britain. There were only a few prospects counted out for sure by Democratic headquarters. Florida's left-wing Senator Claude Pepper was one such. Just about everybody believed the political disclaimer of Secretary of State George Marshall (who would become President if Harry Truman died in office). Ike Eisenhower, who had tried hard to squash presidential rumors, would be even less likely to consider...
Nowadays, Atheist Togliatti firmly clutches the palm branch. Recently, in the Italian Assembly, one of his Christian Democrat opponents ended a bombastic speech with an appeal to the Blessed Virgin; the next speaker windily invoked the Holy Ghost. Communist Togliatti did not reply with dialectical materialism; instead, his steady voice crackled out the First Commandment-"lo sono il Signore Dio tuo. . . ." His fellow legislators cheered...