Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lest their progress look like "steam-rollering." They confined themselves to distributing 50 cases of Smith literature and discussed the platform more than their man. Odds rose to 9 to i on the Smith nomination. Thomas ("Silver Tongue") Hickey onetime newsboy "from the sidewalks of San Francisco" prepared his speech to second the Smith nomination. "There are two kinds of big men," said Mr. Hickey. "Those who grow and those who just swell. Well, Al's growing all the time...
What the Cleveland bishop said, every Catholic prelate has in some manner paraphrased. Memorable was a 1925 speech of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York: ". . . By such sin fell empires, states and nations. Religion shudders at the wild orgy of immorality the situation forebodes. . . . Birth control is heralded because the poor . . . are largely responsible for defectives. Never was there cast . . . a more offensive insult. Defectives, physical or mental, have immortal souls, redeemed by the blood of Christ. The forces of evil . . . would exploit the bodies and ruin the souls of the children of God." (TIME...
...From the speech-making at the convention of the American Institute of Banking, earnest assistant cashiers culled these thoughts...
When the cheering ceased, the Rotarians listened to the principal speech of the evening, by James Hamilton Lewis, onetime (1913-19) U. S. Senator from Illinois. This Lewis praised Rotary, praised...
...Senator Borah, out boomed the great Borah voice, up jumped the Kansans in a repetition of their Curtis demonstration the night before. The four other nominees withdrew. The Curtis delegate-daughter, handsome Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight of Rhode Island, seconded her father in 17 words after a seconding speech by New Jersey's (Senator) Walter Evans Edge, who removed the last trace of competition...