Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's Message demands several days for thorough digestion, several matters stand out most significantly from the main body of thought. First, he has demolished the wild, pre-election talk of "dictatorship", declaring pointedly that "change (in the presidency) will occur in future years." Second, the tenor of his speech, as was expected, is decidedly paternalistic, brim full of suggestions for changes leading to increased national power...
...strengthening of neutrality, the conduct of foreign relation, the ideals of Buenos Aires, the President can assume with considerable justice the self-congratulatory tone which pervades the whole speech. But in domestic affairs he reads and listens much like the old Roosevelt; again he things too much in terms of the presidency, too much in terms of a government...
While most are viewing with alarm the European situation, a storm brewing in the West threatens shortly to capture their complete attention. And well it might, for the irascibile Mr. Lewis is no believer in mild-mannered dickering but in angry speech-making and drastic action...
...overly dramatising this case to point to the corrollaries of academic bondage. In other lands control of schools has suggested control of the press--then of speech. At such a stage the term civil rights is mere verbage. Princetonian
...again. He keeps the promise until the night in London when he is trying to decide whether to vote for or against a compromise treaty that he knows his party will regard as treachery. After he signs it, he and Helen meet once more-when Riordan, making a triumphant speech, has been shot down by his best friend who thinks he has betrayed Ireland for a pretty face...