Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech there could be no doubt that Governor Earle had undertaken a great feat, never before performed by man: having made a political crossing of the color line, to make a political crossing of the Mason-Dixon...
Many Britons who had thought that newly installed Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was barren of humor changed their minds last week. Before the wildly cheering House of Commons in his first speech as the nation's leader, "The Unknown" Chamberlain not for the first time revealed a flair for the sardonic.* Of retired Stanley Baldwin he said: "His love of truth wavered only occasionally, when, with a deceit which soon ceased to deceive anybody he was wont to describe himself as a plain, ordinary man. . . . Many comparisons have been made between Baldwin and other great Prime Ministers...
Stanley Baldwin having been disposed of, the House got down to business. Up for discussion came the tax on growth of profits proposed by Neville Chamberlain in his Budget Speech (TIME, May 3). Leveled at Britain's fattened armament firms, this tax was originally designed to yield an annual revenue of $125,000,000 toward the cost of the Government's $7,500,000,000 five-year armament plan...
...this time. Within a few hours he sat down before a telephone, rang up the prospective ministers of what was soon tagged "The Telephone Cabinet." From the first, one thing was clear: the military Government could not be replaced by an out-&-out liberal one. In a brief radio speech in which he revealed an attractive radio personality, the new Premier declared that he would seek to "heal strife and eliminate friction." This meant that he had to conciliate the Army, recognize the disgruntled civilian parties, win the sympathy of the electorate...
...balls" (TIME, June 7). Last fortnight, Pitcher Dean's readiness to cause a sensation took the new and unpredictable form of a visit to Belleville, Ill. where he addressed the Presbyterian Men's Club. Next day the Belleville Daily Advocate reported that in the course of his speech Pitcher Dean had called the National League's President Ford Frick and its Umpire George Barr "the two biggest crooks in baseball." Last week, when the Cardinals went to New York to play the Brooklyn Dodgers, Pitcher Dean was notified that he had been indefinitely suspended by President Frick...