Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes the process will continue for a long time to come. He does not, however, chew tobacco. Nor does he own a blue pencil, he reports, nor has he ever used this or any other kind of writing instrument to revise, delete or otherwise collaborate in a Vandenberg speech...
Bulow, in his first outstanding speech in nine years in the Senate, admitted that the U. S. might well forget neutrality to "track Hitler down and hang him to a sour apple tree." But he warned that this hunt would cost millions of lives, while Hitler might have died a natural death meanwhile...
...Governor James V. Allred, now a U. S. district judge, is debarred from anti-Garner campaigning by the Hatch Act (no politicking for Federal employes). The most sincere New Dealer of the lot, Maury Maverick, has got himself into political trouble in Texas by espousing free speech for Communists and letting the home folks think he has "gone national." This week Mr. Maverick got into his worst trouble yet. Along with a local official and a former business agent of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, he was indicted by a Bexar County grand jury charged with using union contributions...
...being old and fat, he is short of breath and so must be brief of phrase . . . He has made the most of this limitation. Artist that he is, he has accepted its challenge and employed it in effects that express his genius with a notable and economical directness. His speech then is not merely brief; it is repetitive, it rolls back on itself, it picks up its theme and tosses it to us again, with rich improvements." This is a kind of theorizing which is surely in a class by itself...
Albert S. Coolidge, Lecturer in Chemistry, opened the meeting with a defense of the Ludlow Amendment claiming that it gave the people an opportunity to express their peace sentiment while Liam Donlom, field representative of the C. L. O., continued the discussion with a speech emphasizing the breakdown of collective security and the absolute necessity of our isolation policy...