Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel I speak for thousands of other men who would like to see this country at least start on the road back. None of us is going to turn down that much money and be made a "sucker" for not accepting...
When he quit the Cabinet last February, Harold Ickes went over to ICCASP as executive chairman (reputedly at $25,000). But Honest Harold is a little too old, crotchety and hog-on-ice independent for ICCASP. The Committee wanted him to speak here, there & everywhere; Harold wanted to speak only at rallies of his own choosing. Result: Ickes will make some speeches for the Committee this fall, and will not collect anything near $25,000. Asked about Jo Davidson's political savvy, Ickes replied: "He's a good sculptor...
...Mayfield swung back, and last week her reply was the talk of Denver: "I suspect your difficulty is that you haven't had the chance of meeting the kind of people who do speak well. . . . For, coming to Denver as you obviously have, with a prejudice against people here, you are not likely to be welcomed with open arms. It's such a shame you had to come here at all. Perhaps your husband can discover oil on Broadway or Park Avenue and you can go back...
...Roman Catholic Church can speak with a united voice, if it will, in support of an agreed-upon interpretation of the Christian message to this stricken world. The Protestant problem is that of uniting its voice...
...scandalous violation of naval etiquette. Some of them even sat with their feet on the tables. None of them seemed to do any work. . . . Coarse, extramarital exploits were discussed openly at the dinner table. Some of the officers drank. . . . With his own ears he had heard various officers speak seditiously of the ship and the Navy and, worst of all, of the captain. . . . Young Keith was hocked; he was shocked...