Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mixed in with the final flood of departmental work there were, of course, many political conferences and duties. There was the notification speech, for delivery in Palo Alto on August 11, to be completed. Nominee Hoover consulted men like Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor and President Lewis T. Taber of the National Grange to make sure he would say just the right things on August...
...still as the Secretary of Commerce that Mr. Hoover received newsgatherers one final time. In a three-minute speech he thanked them for their patience and industry in making public the doings of the Department. "We thought we had a gospel to preach here," he said. He bade adieu to his heads of bureaus in a choked voice...
...shiny automobile on Independence Day went Vice President Charles Gates Dawes. It was in his own home town of Evanston, Ill. It was a parade. Beside Mr. Dawes in the front motor sat Evanston's Mayor Charles H. Bartlett. Each was going to make a patriotic speech. There was a holiday atmosphere in the air. The parade was following them. There would be a crowd at the gathering place in an Evanston park. The dignitaries paid small attention to passing motors full of citizens with golf clubs, bathing suits, pop bottles, eyeshades, shirt sleeves. It was Independence Day. They...
...that Governor Smith was four times elected by the stupidity of his opponents. Loudest of his opponents was Theodore Roosevelt the younger. Last week, notwithstanding Chairman Work's announcement that the Hoover campaign would not indulge in personal attacks, Theodore Roosevelt the younger spoke at Rochester, N.Y., a speech he had learned by heart during previous anti-Smith campaigns. He elaborately explained that no man would question Governor Smith's personal integrity. Then he juxtaposed the Smith name with a sewer scandal, a gambling pool, a milk scandal, and with the oldtime sins of Tammany Hall...
...Speech. Just prior to moving from its oldtime site downtown to a temporary site at 2 Park Avenue (directly opposite the Prohibition Administrator's headquarters), Tammany Hall heard an address from its most distinguished son. The country heard it, too. The son was quite brazen about it and said...