Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan a bust of Dr. George David Stewart, president of the American College of Surgeons, was unveiled in his presence in the Carnegie Lecture room of the Bellevue Medical College, many old and wealthy men stood by with bare heads. One of them even tried to make a speech. The people gasped when they saw him come forward. It was George F. Baker...
...next appearance was at Old Fort, N. C., where it looked as though Candidate Smith might make a speech. But George W. Sandlin, the local orator, got into action first, with a historical sketch of Old Fort. Then a conductor called "All aboard...
...Biltmore, the Candidate stood up in an automobile and said he was glad to be there. He told his five thousand or so welcomers how busy he had been, governing New York-an amiable, spontaneous yet perfunctory speech until the last sentence. Then, slily combining his oldtime East Side accent with the local vernacular, he said: "I hope to meet yez-all personally before I leave." The North Carolinans cheered...
Senator Coleman Blease of South Carolina, who "loves all the citizens of America," made a speech quoting an anonymous woman in the Census Bureau as having written: "We call these colored Census Bureau employes 'Hoover Chocolates' and all wish we could make him eat them...
...Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, made a speech, saying...