Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this vast external realm," observed the bearded, British-born old Associate Justice, "with important, complicated, delicate and manifold problems, the President alone has the power to speak or listen as a representative of the nation. He makes treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate; but he alone negotiates...
Without confirming or denying anything, Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan Volkischer Beobachter significantly ruminated thus: "Newspapers are full of alarming rumors and comment on the development of the crisis in Spain and speak of a joint Anglo-French protest in Berlin...
...Monday afternoon, fortunately, the Dictator who had been risking his life by his refusal to speak with desperate men, spoke-nay, he conversed. This conversation, like that of Mr. Baldwin and King Edward, was not so much about the tremendous issues at stake as about money. Of course Young Chang did not threaten to kill Dictator Chiang unless he was paid a given sum. That would have been nonsense. The position of each of these two Chinese was of such eminence and power that a few million dollars more or less was not to them what...
...House of Commons in London last week was welcomed by Scottish constituents as an opportunity to get their Scottish M. P.'s on the carpets of their homes during the Christmas holidays and make them come clean. About results of this discreet procedure the Scottish Press will speak in its own time, tersely...
...officiate at the Coronation and consecration of a King who intended to marry a woman such as Mrs. Simpson (see p. 18). In the House of Lords, the Archbishop spoke volumes when he said in a broken voice, "Of the motive which compelled the renunciation we dare not speak...