Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England's recovery and urged that prosperity of the whole U. S. was necessary to make New England prosperous-thereby apologizing for the fact that in proportion to the taxes it has paid New England has received but a tiny share of Federal bounty. At his chief speech, in Worcester, he tackled taxes themselves, declared that income and estate taxes had been increased only for the rich-"less than 1% of the heads of American families"gave the impression that poor are paying less in indirect taxes than they did in 1932. The undistributed profits tax on corporations...
Next day in Connecticut the frenzy of the Massachusetts visit was reproduced. Connecticut's popular and able Governor Wilbur ("Uncle Toby") Cross, instead of being kept at arm's length like Governor Curley, was applauded in every Roosevelt speech beginning before the State Capitol (where eleven women and a boy fainted) and ending at Stamford (where several people were injured in an automobile crash). In each town through which the President motored, the schools were dismissed and a general holiday proclaimed. At New Haven where Yale dormitories were decked with Landon banners but no boos were uttered...
...With his speech, the boos began again, creating a deep, ominous undertone in every burst of cheers. Nominee Landon fought back with loud voice and waving fist, hammering on nearly all his familiar themes the Constitution, the Supreme Court, the American Way, Spending, Regimentation, Relief Corruption, Taxation...
...seat capacity. When the Nominee rose to speak he got the warmest ovation of his campaign. It was a full seven minutes before the wildly yelling crowd would let him begin his long-awaited pronouncement on foreign relations. Twenty-nine times in the course of the 24-minute speech, on which he and his advisers had been working all summer, his audience broke in with applause or cheers...
...campaign on a platform opposing inflation, lotteries, Communism, crime, high taxes, war, and, above all, alcohol. Since he left his Manhattan home in June, he has traveled 25,000 miles in Pullman cars, visited 31 States, has only let five days pass without at least one speech. In some 300 addresses he has driven home his point that the Prohibition Party is the only party that "recognizes God as the source of good Government...