Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest that we need not go back so far, as President William Howard Taft and Governor Woodrow Wilson met in the Copley Plaza hotel, Boston, less than two months before election day 1912. The President had come to speak at the banquet of the Congress of International Chambers of Commerce. Candidate Wilson was touring New England at the end of his campaign, and had ended his day at the same hotel. Along with other newspapermen I hoped for a meeting of the two candidates, and, those of us in the Wilson group, sought the Governor's permission to bring...
...dozen old friends, he motored to the familiar grounds and in the opensided amphitheatre delivered his second political speech, interjecting a new issue in the campaign. Excerpts: ''In view of the great contribution Chautauqua has made to American Life, I was glad to accept your invitation to speak...
...visit to Chautauqua, in pivotal New York. Speaking in place of his wife, whose address scheduled for this week was canceled, Non-Partisan Roosevelt declared in favor of Peace and Neutrality: "I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of the line -the survivors of a regiment of one thousand that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving...
...Press,* stumped each & every county in the State in person, won a great victory. Two years later the anti-Tillman faction sent its candidate out to dog the Governor around the State. Thus the custom developed of having all the candidates in a State-wide primary travel together, speak in the same place at the same time. This system is hard on office-seekers but easy on the voters who have to turn out only once to hear all the candidates. To enter such a Democratic primary, each & every candidate binds himself to obey the party's rules...
Idahoans, indeed, have seen little of William Edgar Borah since they first elected this Illinois-born lawyer to the U. S. Senate in 1906. He owns no residence in Idaho. Rarely has he risen on the Senate floor to speak out for Idaho's sectional interests. Last week Senator Borah knew the acid test had come for this absentee political landlordship. Did Idaho Republicans think his reputation for Senatorial eloquence and independence worth a sixth term...