Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coming to more personal matters, how is it possible to associate Tyler with such filthy stories as are ascribed to Lincoln by his friends? Granting that Tyler could not have written Lincoln's Gettysburg speech, it is also true that he could not have written, at any period of his life. The indecent letter which Lincoln wrote to a Mrs. Owens concerning a lady to whom he had proposed and by whom he had been rejected, nor could he have written any letter like that which Lincoln wrote to General Grant in 1865 asking that his son, aged...
...speaker was William Zebulon Foster, famed U. S. Communist. He was speaking in Manhattan, where some 250 delegates to the Workers (Communist) party convention were about to nominate Comrade Foster for President of the U. S. His speech constituted a sort of premature acceptance oration...
Before Candidate Foster was half through his speech, the broadcasting station (WEAF) which was transmitting his sentiments received ten telephone calls demanding that he be shut off at once. But Candidate Foster was interfered with in no way. He finished, happily of his own accord, well within his allotted time. The Communist campaign...
...supremacy greater than that of little old Senator Simmons. Editorials appeared. Letters went around. Finally, the Senate investigators turned up, instead of a lot of Smith money, a lot of rebellious sentiment against the Simmons rule. Therefore, last week, in a whispery voice, Senator Simmons began a long, long speech which was as much the last stand of a local patriarch as it was the last stand of Tradition v. Tammany...
...Coolidge denies this. In two paragraphs of his Memorial Day speech at Gettysburg, he cast aside the conclusions of the expert psychologist and criminologist, to avow his faith in the existent American machinery of justice. There might be grit in the works, but the design was good, and the wheels would revolve in silence when chicanery and flummery among judges was cleaned...