Word: speech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, Senators from the oil states dusted off some of Olds's old clippings. The subcommittee "discovered" them with righteous horror, although the same stories had been aired on the Senate floor five years earlier. Olds, a plain-featured man with jutting ears and a smooth manner of speech, testified that he had written as he did "because I believed radical writing was needed in the 'golden '20s' to shock the American people. . . out of the social and political lethargy . . ." He emphatically denied that he had ever been a Communist; Communism was a "negation of democracy...
...last week the Press Club received a polite refusal. "While I deeply appreciate the great honor conferred on me . . ." Costello wrote, "I cannot accept ... I never made a speech in my life and the very thought of it almost scares me to death. Even the idea of facing members of the press gives me the shivers, although not nearly so much now as before November last, when you loused up the election situation and the betting odds...
...Josip Tito added his authoritative opinion last week to those who think the Kremlin has a secret method of extracting confessions from its victims. In a speech to the Yugoslav army, Tito said that Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, had been taken to Moscow after his arrest in June and trained to confess in his treason trial, held in Budapest last month. Said Tito: "They prepared that trial according to some method which they have. You saw that everything went as it should. I do not know how one gets people to try to accuse themselves...
...Delhi or touring his India, Nehru sticks to salwars, a homespun shirt and a white Gandhi cap for his high bald crown. He is Panditji-literally, Mister Scholar -to his people. To most of them his Cambridge speech is unintelligible, nor is he himself quite at ease in the Hindu vernaculars. The mass of Indians cannot read his prolific English writings. Nonetheless, he has followed in Gandhi's footsteps as a popular national hero...
During the Asian Relations Conference of 1947, when the audience became noisy and unruly, Nehru descended from the speaker's stand, shoved down people in the front rows until the crowd calmed down. Then he got back on the platform and listened to Gandhi make a speech on nonviolence...