Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heels of Wet President Butler's speech came a public statement by Dry Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho, followed last fortnight by a speech and last week by another speech and several press statements from Senator Borah...
...speech to the New York Women's Committee for Law Enforcement, Senator Borah said: "Everybody, except the deaf & dumb and the candidates, will be discussing it. . . . Under proper leadership the people of the United States will enforce any law which they are willing to repeal. Under proper leadership they will repeal any law which they are unwilling to enforce. Let us not play the game below the intelligence and the courage and the character of the people." In a speech last week to the National Grange convention at Cleveland, Senator Borah said: "You know perfectly well that a political...
Academic applause had greeted President Butler's speech on "The Lost Art of Thinking." Political cartoons-a far surer sign that something may have happened-greeted Senator Borah's salvos. He was pictured dragging a shuddering elephant to a water trough. He was shown pointing at a chained elephant with angry little eyes, and shouting: "From now on you're a camel...
...persons long acquainted with U. S. politics withheld prediction. A speech is only a speech, they said, and thinking is only thinking. Lost arts, they said, are discussed at institutes of arts and sciences, but they remain, .after all, lost arts. U. S. politics remain U. S. politics. It is far too soon to say whether Senator Borah or any one else can transform the topic about which U. S. citizens think and feel the most, from the great Hush-Hush of the politicians in both parties to the one real issue of the campaign...
Paul Klapper, Dean of the College, found himself before 500 students who wanted to know the faculty's attitude towards "free speech." He hushed them, saying: "It would be a sorry day for colleges if students were not permitted to agitate...