Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disgusted with this last issue, April 17. On p. 21 you speak of Mrs. Roosevelt, the First Lady of the land, whom we all respect and admire as "long-legged." I am ashamed...
Last week Hatton Sumners spoke to the District Attorneys on Democracy. To the Parole Conference he spoke tartly on crime* and passed on to speak even more tartly on Government spending...
...scholarly, war-impoverished Tennessee slaveholder, stringy, hard-jawed Hatton Sumners, 63, is a self-taught authority on law and history (specialty: the 13th Century). When he rises to speak, the House hushes. On an automobile ride in 1937 with the late Majority Leader Joe Robinson, Speaker Bankhead, Majority Leader Sam Rayburn and Senator Ashurst, he announced the first serious opposition to President Roosevelt's plan for altering the Supreme Court by saying: "Boys, here's where I cash in." He would not receive the Court bill in his committee and forced the Senate to consider it first...
Object: pre-season training for the 1940 campaign. Chosen to speak at the first tryout were new Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas, new Governor Ray Baldwin of Connecticut, new Senator Robert Taft of Ohio. Of these, Governor Baldwin did the best job of speechmaking but Senator Taft got the biggest headlines: in slightly better oratorical form than the night of his Gridiron Dinner fiasco (TIME, April 24), he took the bold political risk of accusing the President of the U. S. of using foreign policy as a curtain for his domestic difficulties. Excerpt...
Laborites. Robert Menzies slowly rose to his feet. His voice trembled as he began to speak. If the Country Party had closed the door to coalition for reasons of high policy, he said, he could respect it, but it had been closed for reasons which were offensive, personal, paltry, irrelevant. The House cheered. But when Robert Menzies later went knocking for ministers, he found the Country Party door not only closed but bolted and barred. Even so, early this week he finally succeeded in forming his Cabinet...