Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week the galleries were crammed and many a Senator strolled over to what it pleases Senators (but not Representatives !) to call the "lower" chamber. For days beforehand, a speech had been advertised by the man who was going to make it. The subjects were to be Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Ohio politics. And the speaker was Charles Brand-Methodist, Mason, Moose, Eagle -who is now enjoying his second term as Representative of Ohio's seventh district (Urbana...
...Marion Star for the large sum of $380,000. On the floor of the Senate, that same afternoon, campaign funds were on a dozen lashing tongues. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Democrat, told of a Republican dinner in Chicago in 1920 where Vice President Coolidge made "a rip snorting speech" before "the big fat fellows from all over the country, who had more money than they knew what to do with." Senator Borah made another plea for his Republican retribution fund:* "I believe the [Sinclair] conspiracy was formed in the city of Chicago at the convention...
...American Opera Comany will present Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio", a comedy with a romantic background interspersing speech with song, at the Hollis Street Theatre this evening. Two lovers and the Sultan are the romantic personages, while the keeper of the harem, fat and drunken, and a sportive maid provide the humorous element...
While echoes of Governor General Stimson's inaugural speech still rang in the Philippine press, a short, swart, bald, bearded little man in Washington put finishing touches on a speech of his own, sent it to the U. S. House of Representatives, caused his trunks to be packed and, with his wife, started for home. Governor General Stimson had declared flatly his opposition to Philippine independence in anything like the near future (TIME, March 12). The little man in Washington, Resident Commissioner Isauro Gabaldon of the Philippines, was resigning and going home, not only to keep independence sentiment alive...
...courts, pronouncing collective bargaining to be "a principle now accepted in American life." Mr. Lewis repeated the miners' charge that railroads, notably the Pennsylvania, had thumbscrewed the mine operators into thumbscrewing the miners. The names "Rockefeller" and "Mellon" occurred forcibly but somewhat extraneously, in Mr. Lewis' speech...