Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taylor went to the big outdoor meeting. But there was no chance for him to make his fine speech there. Glowering more and more darkly, Mr. Taylor did not go to that evening's banquet for the Nominee in Johnson City. Instead, he went to Washington. He was mad. They would see. That Carroll Reece! That Claudius Huston! That *** never mind! Just wait. J. Will Taylor controls more Republican votes than practically any man in Tennessee. Hmph...
During the Reece speech, however, the Nominee grew restive and eyed the hour. So effusively had he been greeted that it was growing late. A crowd was collecting at the outdoor speakers' stand. Radio time would soon be flying. As soon as Mr. Reece finished and before Mr. Taylor could begin, the Nominee stood up, thanked everyone and left the dining room. Almost everyone else left, too. Mr. Taylor remained in glowering loneliness with his fine speech undelivered in his hand...
...same state at the same moment. The day after Nominee Smith reached Albany he turned his back on politics and went out for a restful game of golf. That same evening, amid the booming of flashlights and headlines, Nominee Hoover arrived in Manhattan. In the Hoover pocket was a speech, probably the most earnestly composed document of his campaign...
Before Nominee Hoover, read his speech, into the klieglight stepped a thinnish, baldish, nasal gentleman in a big collar, whose reticence and invisibility had been notable if not conspicuous up to that point in the campaign. Ever since the nominations at Kansas City, Vice President Charles Gates Dawes had been a neutral factor in the election which he had once hoped would be won by his friend, Frank Orren Lowden, and in which he would gladly have played a principal part himself. The plan to introduce him as preliminary speaker in Nominee Hoover's big drive for the Brown...
Vice President Dawes, ever brisk, had written a smart speech. He had written briefly what he had to say, written briefly what the Hooverizers had been trying to say for four months. Something happened to his delivery, however, and the huge audience missed his sharpness as he said: "The real and overshadowing issue . . . is the maintenance of prosperity...