Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor [of Detroit] and the Governor [of Michigan] have not said they could not handle the situation," returned Senator Bailey, "but actions speak louder than words. They have not handled...
...each [prior] case, the violation alleged by those attacking minimum wage regulation for women is deprivation of freedom of contract. What is this freedom? "The Constitution does not speak of freedom of contract. It speaks of liberty and prohibits the deprivation of liberty without due process...
Invited last autumn to speak to the students of brokerage at the New "York Stock Exchange "Institute," SECommis-sioner William Orville ("Bill") Douglas stirred up a teapot tempest in Wall Street by unburdening himself on the "unestablished value" of customers' men, a financial tribe marked for early SEC attention. Referring to the "practice of gentlemen teaching gentlemanly ways of redistributing the wealth of their clients," tart-tongued Bill Douglas went on to observe...
...Develop a permanent national organization to speak effectively for the voiceless stockholder with, perhaps, well-paid professional or public directors sitting at the corporate council table ("The investors . . . today are. by & large, orphans of our financial economy...
April Fool's Day was a complete flop this year; the Cambridge Fire Department received no false alarms, and the University received no telephonists asking to speak to Mr. Harvard...