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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover. Candidate Hoover last week made his first campaign speech. It was so brief, so quiet that only one newspaper (the New York World) heard about it until the next day. It was in Washington, at a banquet which the 80-odd U. S. Representatives invited were asked to keep secret. It took the form of a bow, some thanks, an exhortation to keep fighting and a promise to vindicate the fighters' choice. Representative Dyer of Missouri enlivened the evening with a veritable placing-in-nomination speech, but of greater significance was a statement by Campbell Bascom Slemp, astute...
...John Davis began a fresh week's work by journeying up to the Senate with something it had been expecting from him. Handing some papers to Vice President Dawes, he explained that they contained a report on unemployment in the U. S. as requested lately in the maiden speech of Senator Wagner of New York (TIME March 12). With the air of a man patting a pretty good bond on the back Secretary Davis said that while unemployment is "serious" it is "not so extensive or so grave as the estimates which have been generally circulated...
...hero last week. His very stature is heroic-six feet six-and his broad shoulders support a massive head crowned impressively with snowy hair. As the representative of the British Empire, he strode into the Glass Room of the League of Nations, at Geneva, and delivered a speech which was soon compared to the great orations of Cicero...
Perhaps the most important development of the debate last week, was the close lining up of the U. S. with Great Britain in opposition to Soviet Russia. Thus U. S. Representative Hugh Simons Gibson followed Lord Cushendun with a speech in which he went even further toward condemning the Soviet proposal and roundly advised that the Commission waste no more time upon it. Meanwhile the German and Turkish representatives had taken the stand that they approved the Soviet proposal "in principle"; but all the Latin nations showed themselves unalterably opposed. As a result, the Commission prepared to put the. Soviet...
Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener made a bristling, characteristic speech to the Reichstag, last week, roundly declaring that "the present alarming increase in suicides among German soldiers" is directly due to a clause in the Versailles Treaty which prevents Germans from enlisting in the Reichswehr for a period of less than twelve years...