Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following article was written for the Crimson on Quebec's Padlock law which does the Massachusetts Oath Bill one worse in that it is really restricting freedom of speech in the Canadian province. As in Massachusetts, the fight for the repeal of the law seems for the time being to be doomed, and as in Massachusetts communism is the excuse for its existence...
...Gommunist Party famed Deputy Dolores Ibarruri ("The Passion Flower") entered "reservations" against points in the Premier's program speech, but joined the rest of the Deputies in voting "unanimous confidence." No further Cortes session scheduled, the Leftist Cabinet will thus continue to govern by decrees, ratified at long intervals...
Seven years ago, in Washington's Pan American Union, diplomats blushed almost as red as the Union's macaw, Lorito, when that platitude-hating bird garnished a radio speech by President Herbert Hoover with a raucous Bronx cheer. Recently Lorito's obscene outcries (in Spanish & Portuguese) were silenced forever when he was done to death by David, the Union's gaudy green parrot. Last week, the parrot-murderer, possessed of Lorito's testy spirit, interrupted Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who was giving a speech to the Union (on Davis Cup drawings), with a Bronx...
...Retail Dry Goods Association had a convention in the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan. About 5,000 merchants listened without excitement while speakers told them that Federal taxation was oppressive, that labor unions were monopolistic, that dry goods retailers were the salt of the earth. Then Mr. Merriam gave a speech about installment selling...
...ivory" in the circles he _knew: "Remember it was not humble ivory," Fitzgerald wrote, "it was arrogant, imperative, often megalomaniacal ivory.' Since Lardner's death nobody has carried on his work as laureate of this thick-skulled world; nobody has caught the tones of its odd, original speech, or the flavor of its half-ironic, half-fatuous humor. But with a collection of brief sketches published last month, a young Manhattan reporter looked like the most promising candidate so far for Lardner's vacant post. His stories showed much of Lardner's tormented sympathy for voluble...