Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University made an anti-Prohibition speech. Few listened...
Bowers. Comfortably cool in this igloo in the desert, Democrats confidently expected a feast of oratory. Traditionally, the party's sessions have been marked by eloquent appeals to the memory of Thomas Jefferson, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. This year the keynote speech of Claude Gernade Bowers, historian and editorial writer for the New York Evening World, was awaited with more than usual interest. Keynoter Bowers had won great and sudden fame at a Jackson Day dinner (TIME, Jan. 23), by a brilliant attack upon the Harding "gang." In an era when oratory rarely moves, he stirred righteous indignation...
...convention proper continued. Temporary Chairman Fess read a paragraph lauding Theodore Roosevelt, inadvertently omitted from the "Keynote" speech...
Senator Moses of New Hampshire, installed as permanent chairman, made a bellicose speech. He referred to the Democratic convention of 1924 as "the Madison Bear Garden," and of the Democrats this year said: "Bring them...
...Schalk, conductor of the state opera, directed a splendid performance of the Symphony in C. In the public square, 40,000 people, completely silent in the late spring sunshine, gathered below the musicians to listen. President Michael Hainisch, with his hat off and his white hair blowing, made a speech...