Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Pantomimist Arthur ("Harpo") Marx broke a 13-year public silence in San Francisco recently (TIME, Aug. 24), it could not have been over 15 months at the most. Because I heard him speak from the stage of the Paramount Theater in Portland in May, 1935. The Marx Bros, had an act, "A Night at the Opera." "Harpo" surprised us all by making a curtain speech...
...Moines. Before entering the conference, Senator Vandenberg remarked: "It's been dry in Michigan, but we only knew casually it was a Drought until this trip." Emerging, he reported on results: "We accomplished a mutual exchange of congenialities." Heading for Nebraska, the Michigan Senator was primed to speak on the following topic: "If the Drought is a calamity, what is Secretary Wallace...
This left the Great Powers rebuffed and helpless, unless they were willing to intervene. Only voice of note to speak up on this risky point was that of the Primate of All England, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. "Mediation? Who can undertake the task?" he asked. "It would be a great thing if the leading European powers would attempt it, but this might lead only to dissension among themselves. . . . 'Disquieting signs that the world seems to be going mad have come from this horrible civil war in Spain...
...ordered his priest to retract, later sailed for Vatican City to make Episcopal reports to executives of the Holy See and obeisance to.the Pope. In Vatican City, Bishop Gallagher heard off-stage voices variously blaming and praising Father Coughlin's political activities. Since no prelate had chosen to speak out clearly on his own authority, the Detroit bishop decided that, on the whole, the Vatican approved Father Coughlin, and so declared to the Press (TIME...
When the followers of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman wish to emphasize the fact that the Oxford Groups include all sorts of people, they often speak of their "former Communist" colleague, Scotsman James Watt. The Oxford Groups lay no claim to having a "former Fascist" in their midst, and German Buchmanite baronesses hedge when asked how the movement works in the case of German Jews. Last week, to a stray interviewer from the New York World-Telegram, brisk Dr. Buchman readily declared himself on Fascism, now No. i bugaboo to practically all U. S. churchmen...