Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lofty ballroom of the Cleveland Auditorium, Vice President Ed Hall of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America made a speech one day last week. After dwelling upon the factional feuds which had nearly wrecked the most promising of C. I. O.'s newer unions, pot-paunched Brother Hall observed: "I say that this organization must be like a cat with nine lives. . . . Unless you can put men in office and quit . . . sniveling, snitching and jibing at those individuals, you will never have unity, you will never have a constructive, democratic, militant organization...
Several uniformed war veterans walked out in disgust during the speech. Said the American Legion's Pennsylvania Commander Frank E. Gwynn afterwards: "This man . . . mistakes freedom for license. . . . The Moseleys most certainly must be kept from poisoning the minds of America's youth, from organizing the army which Moseley advocated for the overthrow of the Government...
...Packed in the square beyond was an audience of 80,000 Heil-Hitlering Germans who had just attended the launching of the 35,000-ton battleship Von Tirpitz. Beyond them was a vast radio audience of millions in Germany, Britain, the U. S. waiting anxiously to hear a speech which had been widely heralded as the Führer's answer to the bold, diplomatic anti-German moves by Britain, France, Poland...
...that point, the radio audience heard no more from Adolf Hitler. In Germany, where the people are always commanded to drop whatever they are doing and cluster around when the Führer makes an important speech, a German springtime song, All the Birds Are Here Again, suddenly came over the air. Many Germans thought that an April Fools' Day prank was being played. In the U. S. announcers quickly explained that the Führer's speech had been unavoidably cut off. A rumor that the Führer had been shot even circulated in Manhattan...
Ecstasy. Two-and-a-half hours later a censored recording of the speech was rebroadcast. A polished, edited official version of the text was released from Berlin, while the Führer left the mainland to spend the week-end at Helgoland, fortified German island in the North Sea. Nazi officials did not bother to clear up the mystery of the reason for the shutdown. Theory given in London's Sunday Express was: "Hitler had prepared no speech. He had spent Friday night in a state of high emotion and intense anger against Britain for her moves to curb...