Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside in the jail yard. The surrounding fence was so low that the gallows was in plain view of the crowd. De Boe smiled and nodded to friends and neighbors, remarked: "This fresh air sho' do feel good." The sheriff then gave him 30 minutes in which to speak his last words...
...wife he was convicted of attacking when he robbed her husband's store. "Oh, there she is," said De Boe when someone pointed her out. "Well, how do you feel about it. woman? Is this going to satisfy you? You see, folks, she don't speak. If I had $300 or $500 to give her, she would not have made the charges...
With this mandate to speak for the State, scraggle-haired, bespectacled Governor Talmadge has bawled unceasingly against the New Deal and all its works. Last week he announced that he was about to stump the entire cotton belt "telling the people just how they are being hoodwinked by this policy of destroying cotton, wheat and corn." Politically proud that he is a "dirt farmer," Governor Talmadge also sounded off characteristically with declarations that Secretary Wallace should be sentenced to two years behind a plow, that he knew little about Undersecretary Tugwell except that "they tell me he is poison...
Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will speak to the Harvard Medical Society at their meeting tonight at 7.45 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common Room. Professor Copeland will read some selections of his own choice and relate some reminiscences of his days in the University...
...History and English at M.I.T., who will give a course on the "Western World since 1914"; George S. McManus of the Faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, and Dr. John W. Spargo, associate professor of English at Northwestern University. Stuart Chase and Sarah Wambaugh are slated to speak at a series of lectures...