Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following Representative Casey's speech, Representative La Guardia obtained lurid effects in an oration on "Hootch and Harlots," illustrated in the tabloid sheetlet manner with a gigantic photo of a hard-boiled Coal & Iron Policeman which was passed from hand to hand over the House desks...
...police at the palace gate, sprinting for the portal. She was Miss Prudence ("Cherub") Trotter, smart enfant terrible, daughter of august Sir Victor Murray Coutts Trotter, Chief Justice of the High Court of Madras. She brandished an appeal. It besought His Majesty to urge upon Parliament in his Speech from the Throne immediate passage of the bill giving votes to all women over 21. Miss Trotter, just 20, evidently did not know that the boon she craved had already been drafted into the text of the Speech from the Throne. Soon she was seized by a towering bobby and lugged...
Debate on the speech continued all week. It was flayed as "most meagre" by James Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Labor Opposition and onetime Prime Minister, who declared that Parliament was "in for a long holiday," since the Government had declined to deal with the critical problems of the coal and other vital industries...
...Commons are summoned and hurry to stand at the bar of the Lords. Lastly, the Lord President of the King's Privy Council, Earl Balfour, kneels and presents a scroll containing "The King's Speech." Slowly it unrolls between the Sovereign's fingers and he begins to read: ". . . My relations with the Foreign Powers continue to be friendly. . . . My Government . . . my Secretary of State for India . . . my Army . . . my Navy . . . my Empire...
...Cabinet of Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin spoke to the country, last week, through a speech which was drafted by its members but pronounced, according to custom, by His Majesty, from the Throne (see above...