Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Jones, as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, made the only major speech on the bill, outlining its provisions, which were...
...Senator from Michigan last week to succeed Woodbridge N. Ferris, 75-year-old Democrat who died of pneumonia last fortnight. Mr. Vandenberg made the fifth journalist in the Upper House. Fellow Republican publishers to whom he can look from behind his horn-rimmed glasses for encouragement in his maiden speech are Cutting of New Mexico, Capper of Kansas, La Follette of Wisconsin. Senator-publisher Carter Glass of Virginia sits across the aisle among the Democrats...
...Last week, Matthew Mansfield Neely, the handsome senior Senator from West Virginia, put his mind on Candidate Hoover's reply to Senator Borah's questionnaire on Prohibition (TIME, March 5) and spoke for the space of four columns in the Congressional Record. So successfully did this speech go off that, afterwards, Senator Neely felt justified in editing the parenthesis [Laughter] into the Congressional Record no less than 13 times...
...immediate reply of Signor Mussolini to this frontal attack was a speech to his Cabinet Council in which he said that "If the State does not accept . . . the duty ... of integral preparation of future citizens ... it purely and simply gambles away its right to existence...
...centre of culture in Philadelphia. . . . The city culturally has been a family without a hearthstone. . . ." These were the words of onetime (1922-27) U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper; the hearthstone to which he referred was the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, at whose dedication he was making a speech. The new museum stands above the Schuylkill River, on a spot once tenanted by factories and tenements; here it had been envisaged 20 years ago by John E. Reyburn, then mayor of Philadelphia. Ten of its galleries had been completed at a total cost of about $10,000,000, and these...