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Word: speaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...penned a personal note to Stalin with his own hand. He offered to send the battleship Missouri to bring Stalin to the U.S., promised to accompany him to the University of Missouri at Columbia (20 miles from Fulton) for "exactly the same kind of reception, the same opportunity to speak his mind." Stalin's answer, as usual: "Nyet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Aw Forget It | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

During the course of his main speech and two rebuttals, Barnes insisted that Communists cannot teach or speak without distorting facts and that he could see no good "in permitting a teacher of youth to one whose life is devoted to concealment and distortion of truth, whose aim is the subjugation of mankind to a ruthless dictatorship...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Mather, Barnes Wrangle Over H220 Before Overflow New Lecture Crowd | 2/7/1948 | See Source »

Kimball arrived at the State House in the morning to speak on the now pending legislation, but the Committee did not reach H1559 and decided to wait until some time in March for hearings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Attack on Bill Stymied for a Month | 2/6/1948 | See Source »

...editorial in the CRIMSON, the Free Enterprise Society was charged with the alternative sins of fascism or naivete in allowing Merwin K. Hart to speak under its auspices. Such an accusation demands a clarification of that particular meeting and the Society's position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 2/6/1948 | See Source »

...organization," and his feeble defense of this opinion against belligerent questions, his refusal to make clear the possible motives of this organization--in short, the blatantly prejudiced, untenable, enigmatic nature of his entire stand, should suffice in itself to condemn him in the eyes of anyone who heard him speak. Similarly, Hart's defense of Franco Spain was so undisguised in its emphasis, so contradictory and illogical in its substance, that it would be difficult to imagine him dangerously influencing human minds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hart in the Right Place? | 2/5/1948 | See Source »

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