Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Nova Scotia's Premier Angus Macdonald, a graduate of St. Francis Xavier University, spoke at the opening of a cooperative housing project at a new town, Tompkinsville, named for Father Tompkins. When Father Jimmy rose to speak at the University conference, his audience roared applause. Two days later, an outsider, Political Economist Harold Adams Innis of the University of Toronto, told the conference: "You have reached the dangerous stage in which all men think well of you." Less gallant was the University's Peter Nearing's plea for group medical care: "Our women are . . . puny...
...afternoon at Barnesville, Ga., where he was to throw the switch on a new REA project. Barnesville's population of 3,000 swelled to 30,000 to hear him. On the speakers' platform at his side were Senator George and Candidate Camp. When Franklin Roosevelt began to speak, all present recognized a significant emphasis and deliberateness in his delivery. Before he finished, people realized they had heard a resounding declaration...
...Here in Georgia . . . my friend the senior Senator [Mr. George] . . . cannot possibly in my judgment be classified as belonging to the liberal school of thought. . . . I speak in terms of liberal and conservative, for the very simple fact that on my shoulders rests a responsibility to the people of this country. Twice I have been chosen Chief Executive with the mandate to seek by definite action to correct many evils of the past and of the present: to work for a wider distribution of national income, to improve the conditions of life, especially among those who need it most...
Having recovered from an appendectomy in Washington, Don José Tormos Diego, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, told reporters what he thought of the Nationalists who tried to assassinate Governor Blanton Winship in the mayor's home town (TIME, Aug. 1). "If I could speak the English by the books," he spluttered, "I would blow their nose, by damn...
...exquisite draftsman, an orderly spirit and a sophisticated man. His Self Portrait (see cut) is a prim parable: "The artist remains in shadow . . . and the cord is there to pull down the shade at any time. . . . If one chooses to go farther one may infer that he does not speak directly but through an instrument. . . . This happens to sum up the relationship of the classic artist to his subject...