Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maschke was playing at his club was upstate whist,* requiring brains, not downstate poker, game of bluff. "I am not interested in anything Mr. Willis says. Anything he does is all right with me. . . . I'm through writing letters. But I'm going to make a speech one of these days and when I do I'll say a few things . . . ," said Mr. Maschke...
...quizzed, by Candidate Willis in person, on flood control. Enroute to Washington, Candidate Hoover nailed as false a report that he would enter no primary against a Favorite Son, except in Ohio. The fact was that his handlers had just arranged a nationwide radio "hookup" for a speech he was going to make at an engineering dinner in Manhattan...
...listen to at public bill hearings seldom listen themselves to debaters on the other side. They are emotionalists. For example, a professor of history at Swarthmore) College, Dr. William I. Hull, representing the World Alliance for International Friendship and the Church Peace Union, made a long pacifist speech to the Committee. When he had finished he was asked...
Premier and Finance Minister Raymond Poincare won a smashing vote of confidence, 370 to 131, last week, on his whole financial policy. Thus he reaped well after sowing a gigantic eight-hour speech (TIME, Feb. 13), in which he explained and defended the means whereby he had rescued the franc from decline and virtually stabilized it within only 18 months...
Repeatedly defeated at the polls, Disraeli finally turned Tory, and slipped into Parliament through the influence of one of his many women friends. His too brilliant maiden speech was booed. But an Irish opponent, impressed, advised him: "Get rid of your genius for a session. . . . The House will not allow a man to be a wit and an orator, unless they have the credit of finding it out." He gave them the opportunity...