Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high spirits, Herr von Ossietzky chirped, "I count myself as belonging to a party of sensible Europeans who regard the armaments race as insanity. If the German Government will permit, I will be only too pleased to go to Norway to receive the Prize and in my acceptance speech I will not dig up the past or say anything which might result in discord between Germany and Norway...
...Soviet Congressmen & Congresswomen from every part of European & Asiatic Russia. On the stroke of 5 p. m. a big-boned Asiatic in an unadorned Army tunic entered. Up leaped the 2,500 to cheer Joseph Stalin uproariously for 30 minutes and again at every pause during a two-hour speech in which the Dictator presented for ratification Russia's much discussed new Constitution (TIME, June...
...second time in Soviet history, J. Stalin had had himself put on the air, and all Russia could hear his thick and at times almost unintelligible Georgian accent as he tonelessly reeled off a speech so dry that even the Orator found it best to solemnly drink on the platform a total of five bottles of mineral water. The happy rural delegates, for most of whom a free trip to the Moscow All-Union Congress of the Soviets once every few years is a glorious treat, gave their mass cheers with greatest goodwill at all the right places and even...
Officially in Moscow declared the Commissar for Justice, Nikolai Vassilievich Kryleriko: "Those in the Soviet Union who want to restore the Capitalist system will get from our new Constitution neither freedom of the press nor of speech...
...during the one-minute period devoted to extemporaneous speech that he displays an extraordinary lack of ability, generally stammering and stuttering through such entirely confused phrases as "Memorial Hall tower is 14 feet square; and if it isn't fourteen feet square, it ought...