Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MUCH OBLIGED FOR KIND REVIEW NORTHWEST PASSAGE [TIME, July 5] BUT WILL ALSO NEED WHOLESALE RATES ON BOMBPROOF SHELTERS UNLESS I CAN PERSUADE YOU TO SPEAK A FEW MORE WORDS IN MY BEHALF TO OUTRAGED HISTORIANS. YOU QUOTED ME AS SAYING NO COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF ANYTHING COULD BE OBTAINED FROM ANY ONE OR ANY TEN HISTORIES. I WILL BE DODGING SNIPERS THE REST OF MY LIFE UNLESS YOU EXPLAIN THAT THIS REMARK WHEN CARELESSLY EMITTED IN A PERSONAL LETTER TWO YEARS AGO APPLIED SPECIFICALLY TO THE BURGOYNE CAMPAIGNS OF 1776 AND 1777. ALSO OBLIGED TO DISCLAIM DEVELOPING GREAT IDEA...
Meanwhile Leader Blum had arrived quietly from Paris, his secretaries exuding confidence and saying, "Just wait and see." After some hours of Congress wrangling, Socialist Blum rose in the late afternoon, introduced himself with a sentence which set every cartoonist in France to scratching: "I shall not speak as God or as Caesar, but as for my stewardship as Premier for 13 months, I do not think that the record...
...country is familiar by this time with the parliamentary device of indefinitely continuing the same 'legislative' day by 'recessing' instead of 'adjourning' at the close of each session and the consequent application of the rule that a Senator shall not speak more than twice on the same subject during the same day. But study of precedents at Washington has brought out the fact that in the past the invariable custom of the Senate on the announcement of the death of one of its members has been immediately to adjourn, not recess...
Next day Senator Minton was speaking for the second time on behalf of the bill, yielded to permit a conference report on the War Department Appropriation bill to be made to the Senate. Senator Clark quickly made the point of order that since Mr. Minton had yielded for other than a question, his second opportunity to speak was ended and he must thereafter hold his peace. Senator Guffey was in the chair and for 20 minutes a desperate parliamentary wrangle raged. Then Senator Pittman returned to the chair and ruled that Mr. Minton was within his rights, could continue...
...speak quite sharply to Sir Gerald on the subject...