Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returned from a Packard motor trip through Florida with golf at the stops. He was bustling about Massachusetts at a great rate, telling how the colleges should be run† getting after his Attorney-General for what looked like scalawaggery,** and booming other men so generously that in a speech to a large bevy of clubwomen he slipped into an absurdity. "I would like," he said, "to place before you for consideration the ticket of Hoover and Lindbergh...
...reply, Alabama's Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, erupted in the Senate with characteristically bad taste: "Alabama's Roman Catholic priest wrote this speech and this Romanized, purseproud, millionaire Governor of Massachusetts spoke it! The answer, in my opinion, is found in the fact that Governor Fuller's wife is a Roman Catholic...
...Before my God I am innocent as a child unborn. I knew nothing about this thing until it was all over . . . !" The judge looked sharply at the great detective, who slumped back into his chair humiliated. The judge gazed out the window again, then made a long speech in a low voice. ". . . That he [Father Burns] knew of this surveillance I cannot doubt, and that he knew it from the time it began." The judge concluded: ". . . You are guilty of contempt of court. . . . Men of high character sometimes make mistakes. Your sentence is fifteen days in the Washington jail...
Governor William H. Adams of Colorado and Oliver Henry Shoup, who was Governor before him (1919-23), swung sledges last week to drive a spike into a railroad tie under the Continental Divide west of Denver. The spike was a golden one and the two laborers made speeches. Mayor John F. Bowman of Salt Lake City made a speech, representing Governor George H. Dern of Utah. Then 2,500 people, on four special trains, rode forth and back through the six-mile Moffat tunnel thus formally opened. The tunnel connects Denver and the "near West" with the vast, enormously rich...
...expected counter blast from Signor Mussolini was anticipated last week by the authoritative Giornale D'ltalia of Rome which described Chancellor Seipel's speech as "insincere," and asserted that the Higher Adige is governed "with the same regime and the same application of rights and duties as those prevailing in all other Italian provinces...