Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holland he built Russia's first effective navy. On land he defeated Charles XII of Sweden, most potent warrior of the age, at blood-drenched Pultava. But Peter I was a moody, discontented man. "Whose son am I?" he roared one day from the Throne. "Yours, Tihon Streshnief ? Speak or I will have you strangled...
...until last fortnight's mutiny at Leavenworth Penitentiary (TIME, Aug. 12), was something done. Prompt then to speak was President Hoover. Last week he announced a new program to meet this old problem...
...clutching the heads of his canes until his knuckles showed white, his hurled his ultimatum: "I have behind me the unanimous support of my government, the support of the House of Commons, irrespective of the party in power, and the support of the entire population of Great Britain. I speak frankly. I cannot compromise...
Conservative Wall Street brokers last week were flabbergasted by a spirited defense of stock trading which, to many, signified a major sociological shift. Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who could speak for a vast rural constituency, had declared stock trading on thin margin was not gambling, was therefore not immoral. One reason for his vigorous declaration in behalf of Wall Street stock business was that he himself had been caught playing the market through a bucket-shop firm, now closed...
...First to speak was Inventor Edison. He was unusually nervous as in clear, precisely accurate words, he welcomed the boys and explained there was "no suitable yardstick which can positively determine the relative value of one human being as compared to another." Then as a surprise each boy was given a combination radio-phonograph, said to be valued at $400. When the speeches were over they filed up to the platform, spoke their names into a microphone, shook hands with all of the Committee except Col. Lindbergh who stood back and nodded politely. When Candidate Reid went up there...