Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important business and finally interrupts to ask the presiding officer, 'Whass bizness before House?' or when a similar exponent of the Volstead act has to hang hard to the edge of his desk, while his legs weave unsteadily under him as he attempts to make a speech, or when a champion of the 18th amendment relapses from maudlin inattention into snoring sleep in the midst of a Senate session, the News will undertake to make his condition clear to its readers...
When details of His Royal Highness' cartoon leaked out, last week, serious minded Britons recalled with indignation that during Chancellor Churchill's great Budget speech Edward of Wales sat in the gallery, just over the clock, with paper, pencil, and an innocent, virtuous air of taking notes...
Barnhart, who is president of the Harvard Democratic Club, made the keynote speech, calling for a return to Wilsonian ideals and a cessation of government by and for monopolies. At the mention of Wilson's name, a picture of the late ex-President was unveiled and greeted with prolonged cheering. Barnhart's attacks upon the policy of isolation and corruption in government also brought aplause...
Following this speech, T. H. Eliot '28 was chosen permanent chairman of the convention. When the organization was completed, the nominating speeches began. The first was delivered by James Roosevelt '30, who named Governor Smith as his choice amid an uproar of applause. Newton D. Baker, Thomas J. Walsh, James A. Reed, and Albert C. Ritchie were put in nomination following Roosevelt's speech. A. F. Reel '28 nominated Senator Burton K. Wheeler and a demonstration followed. C. C. Alpern '28 made a parody of Bryan's famous "Cross of Gold" speech, in favor of Senator J. T. Henin...
More than this, the changed editorial policy of the Bruin, is assailable not alone on the well trod ground of freedom of speech and thought its essence is error. The university daily is as far from the jurisdiction of student government as the New York Times is from the supervision of the Customs Bureau. It is difficult to bound the province of student government. Control of athletics by such a body may be conceded; it may also be questioned. But student government and student journalism are epiphenomena...