Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the big guns of the Southern delegation had been gathering material for the battle to come. Mississippi's roundheaded Senator James Eastland swore darkly to talk "two years if necessary." His fellow Mississippian, Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo was less rash. He would speak twice-"for 30 days each time...
What's in a Name? Between negotiations, the Russian delegates attended a state dinner at the Governor General's Palace, now General Hodge's residence. They ate turkey and trimmings, scowled but did not speak. After dinner the Americans entertained them with unaccountable selections from a full library of modern films. The feature was Sunbonnet Sue, a sentimentally saccharine "B" picture which scratched and jerked across the screen for 80 minutes. (General Shtykov's interpreter gave up after five minutes.) Sunbonnet Sue was followed by an animated cartoon about Traphappy Porky, a jitterbugging pig, which added...
...legislative proposals, he said: "I had hoped that the Congress either would follow my recommendation or at least propose a solution of its own. . . . When I speak of my recommendations and proposals, I also want to make it very clear that I have no pride of authorship in them...
...Queen Elizabeth slipped her hawsers at Manhattan's Pier 90 and moved through the grey morning toward the open sea, she carried the Justice Minister on his greatest assignment yet. As head of Canada's five-man delegation,* Louis Stephen St. Laurent was London-bound to speak for his eleven and a half million countrymen, and to guard their interests, at the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization (see INTERNATIONAL...
...ministry, Minister Pleven fought the powerful, conservative, old-line civil servants who speak for French business. They wanted a massive devaluation (150 francs to the dollar...