Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rank & file of the Chamber of Commerce-who for more than a year have opposed many aspects of the New Deal, but who, for diplomatic reasons, have previously been kept by their tycoon leaders from expressing their feelings-had finally ridden roughshod over those who counseled them to speak softly, had passed a set of resolutions bluntly objecting to the Administration's banking, utilities and social security bills as well as AAA and Franklin Roosevelt's plan for extending NRA for two years (see p. 63). Franklin Roosevelt had already snubbed them by sending no message to their...
...called business organizations, such as the Chamber, were apt to misrepresent the businessmen they claim to speak...
...said a spokesman who objected strongly to being named, "wouldn't of gave a moll like that a job washing glasses in a Speak...
Snub. Last year President Roosevelt sent greetings to the Chamber. Year before he addressed it in person. This year he cut it dead. Chamber officials and White House secretaries denied an intentional snub, explaining that the President was too busy to speak and had not been asked for a message. Nevertheless, the Chamber rebels trembled in defiant delight, convinced that they had thoroughly riled the President...
...Sergei Gaposchin will speak tonight, inaugurating a series of "Open Nights" at the Observatory under the auspices of the Bond Astronomical Club...