Word: speech
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Landon, bashful in politics, has made not one campaign trip with her Nominee-husband, has made not one public campaign speech. Once or twice she has spoken off the record at small gatherings of women's clubs in Kansas, but until last week it appeared that the campaign of 1936 was to pass into history without her contributing a single word to the record. Not to be completely left out, however, she attended a meeting last week in Topeka of the Independent Coalition of American Women and there she told a story...
More good news for Britons came in a speech to the 1912 Club by Sir Henry Page-Croft: "There has been much windy talk that if another war takes place it will 'end civilization.' This of course is sheer nonsense. Even if London were subjected to a pitiless hail of bombs and gas, it is childish to imagine that such frightfulness would be the end of England, much less the end of the British Empire...
Horace Mann immediately succeeded to John Quincy Adams' seat in Congress as an anti-Slavery Whig. In 1850 he wrecked what might have been a promising political career by breaking with Daniel Webster after that statesman's "Seventh of March Speech," advocating a compromise on the extension of slavery to the Northern territories. In 1852 Mann was defeated as the Free-Soil candidate for governor of Massachusetts. Same year he returned to education by accepting the presidency of New Antioch College...
...crop are 33,330,000 Ib. compared with a bumper yield of 95,340,000 Ib. in 1935. Not one cent will be earned by the Texas nut grove of the most eminent U. S. pecan grower, John Nance Garner. Just before he broadcast his only campaign speech from his home in Uvalde, the Vice President let it be known that his pecans were this year a total failure, declaring: "I'm just leaving the whole crop for the squirrels...
...little Alabama sawmill town of Hodgetown. Jim and Andrew Tallon grew up in a situation that was set like a time-bomb for some future explosion. Andrew was a powerful, slow-minded, poetic young man who had been laughed at throughout his boyhood because of his harelip and crippled speech. Jim was a wiry, passionate young mill-hand who had defended Andrew all his life. When innocent, Georgia-born Myrtle Bickerstaff came to town and was paired with Andrew at a church social, won his pathetic devotion and fell in love with his brother, she provided the one element needed...