Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rough and tumble mass meeting in a local campaign. The crowd grew restive, stamped, clapped, applauded at the wrong times, and conducted itself generally in a manner highly discourteous and disrespectful to the speaker. Finally he stopped and pleaded with the audience, which then permitted him to finish his speech-which he did hastily. Like many another resident of this city, I came away from the meeting with a deep sense of shame that an honest and sincere public official could not give to a Philadelphia audience a straight forward account of certain phases of the public business-even...
TIME'S footnote said: "A 'facts and figures' campaign speech in Philadelphia caused a good Republican audience, provoked by his schoolmarm manner, to boo Senator Smoot...
...around Washington and entertained her (TIME, April 15), President Hoover devoted spare moments to Mr. Ochs, who publishes the august, fatherly (and almost always Democratic) New York Times. President Hoover asked Publisher Ochs this and that about U. S. journalism. After the Ochses had gone, President Hoover wrote a speech. Last week President Hoover went to Manhattan, taking his speech with him, the first extra-routine speech of his administration. Publisher Ochs was at the station to meet him, to escort him to a hotel where the Press was assembled. It was the Press in a far larger sense than...
...cried "Emperor" Cook huskily, turning directly to H. R. H., "You, sir, have done a marvelous thing. Never was I so impressed as by your speech on Christmas night. I was with two Communist friends and when your name was announced to speak on behalf of the miners' fund, they scoffed, but they listened to what you had to say and when you had finished, with tears in their eyes they put their hands in their pockets and gave what money they had to the fund...
...Mussolini!"-his right hand shot up like all the rest. "Giuro!"-he swore allegiance to king and country. Perched on the enormous throne sat tiny King Vittorio Emanuele, looking even smaller than usual under a terrific damask canopy surmounted by a vast crown. When he rose to deliver the "speech from the throne"-that is to say, Mussolini's declaration of policy-the voice of His Majesty rang loud and clear. As everyone had expected, the speech urged upon the deputies as their supreme duty ratification of the enabling legislation for the treaty and concordat recognizing Pope Pius...