Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoover. Mr. Hoover was scheduled to speak at the Governor's Conference on Mackinac Island, Mich. (see POLITICAL NOTES). When he was unable to attend, his place was taken, spontaneously, by onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania. The substitution made a very considerable difference in the nature of the speech delivered, for Mr. Pinchot vigorously attacked the Federal Government for entrusting flood control to Army engineers, and Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago expressed his total lack of confdence in the flood-prevention measures recently (TIME, Aug. 1) expounded by Mr. Hoover at Rapid City. Mr. Pinchot termed...
...Baldwin, however, the dominion is new territory, so, and if I may for the moment, speak as a Canadian, I should like to bid her and her family a true welcome to this land where people speak the word 'welcome' from the heart and do not say 'good-by,' but 'come again,' and mean...
Could any man who has joined with Sir Harry Lauder in such a chorus shake off the spell sufficiently to speak ill of him ? Sir Harry's friends would doubtless deny the possiblility; but in Edinburgh last week at a meeting of the Town Council, Mr. Councilman Gilzean struck the table a blow with his doubled fist and shouted...
...last week in Bucharest as the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania gave out her first interview since the death of her consort, Ferdinand I, and the ascension under a Regency of her five-year-old grandson, King Michael I (TIME, Aug. 1). Soon the Queen Grandmother went on to speak in such vein that she revealed herself once more as a clever and attentive student of all that is written or implied about Her Majesty. She said...
...speak, sir, for one hour on any day and at any hour you may select," Mr. Aylesworth exclaimed angrily...