Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notice. "They are terrible after me," wrote Fritz. "I am the public anemi No. 1." When he spoke in Schenectady there was more trouble: the Jews and the C. I. O. and the Communists held a meeting; he thought he heard a shot fired. Shaken but triumphant after his speech, he decided: "They driving me crazy-you know, I think this Jews are beginning to be afraid of me." But Fritz Kuhn was human: not only did he get angry, want some philosophy that made sense of his troubles-Fritz Kuhn also wanted sympathy, and not just from...
...week-end war speech to the Empire, Prime Minister Chamberlain declared: "Already we know the secret of the magnetic mine and we shall soon master it as we have already mastered the U-boat." But these words went out to the tune of more titanic explosions, under the hulls of Pilsudski, the 14,294-ton flagship of the Polish merchant marine, chartered by the British Government when Poland disappeared, and of Spaarndam, 8,857-ton Holland-America freighter in the Thames estuary. Aboard Pilsudski, torpedoed northwest of Britain, were only her Polish crew and some British cooks, of whom seven...
Pravda's vituperation was based on a speech made by Finnish Premier Aimo Cajander in Helsinki in which the Premier advised Finns to plow their fields with their rifles to their shoulders. According to the Russians, the Premier also spoke kindly of how Tsars Alexander I and II had respected Finnish rights and compared the Soviet Union's aggressive policy unfavorably with the Tsars...
...ornamental, gilt-walled hall of the Hungarian Parliament's Lower Chamber walked surefootedly one day last week a young, handsome aristocratic statesman exuding confidence. He was Count Stephan Csáky, Hungary's Foreign Minister; before him were 262 uniformed deputies, waiting expectantly to hear a scheduled speech on foreign relations...
...speech had the blunt, threatening, direct, totalitarian touch so typical of the masters of Berchtesgaden and Rome, whom the Foreign Minister has several times visited. He hailed the "new era" that Nazi Germany had brought to Eastern Europe. He gloated over the "collapse of an artificially created Czechoslovakia." He sneered at onetime President Eduard Benes of Czecho-Slovakia and resented what he called M. Benes' renewed "propaganda and activities." As for neighbors...