Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soldier and statesman to make so perfect a gesture. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, after taking oath last week on his late great father's presidential Bible as ninth U. S. civil governor at San Juan. Porto Rico, spoke in Spanish the first 200 words of his inaugural speech. The remainder of the speech was delivered in English, but inasmuch as no previous U. S. governor of Porto Rico had ever spoken inaugurally in Spanish, and as Colonel Roosevelt had studied Spanish only since the announcement of his appointment to his position (TIME, April 23), the Porto Ricans were impressed...
...bilingual twist, the new governor's speech might not have been considered extraordinary. The Colonel recalled how his late, great father, only U. S. president to visit Porto Rico, had called the island "the Switzerland of America." He referred to his duties as ''our work," asked for "team-play, shoulder to shoulder...
...Washington and two sensational stranglings filled Washington papers and clogged national press services. But the dentists themselves were also to blame. Enterprising organizations do not wait for reporters to attend their meetings. Good publicity committees send information, well prepared, to the newspapers. The dentists did not have one convention speech to give out. They preferred to horde them for printing in their own professional magazine during the coming months, when public interest in their work will be diffuse and weak...
...loved daintily, with acute tremblings. Lions "laughed and kissed in their delight." Then "I heard the song of the ape-man . . . [it] resounded in powerful alternations, Aw-Aw-Aw-H-u-u-uh, as tremendous as the lions' roar. It was the song of primitive life, the thunderous speech of nature...
...bearish factor was a speech by Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, which attributed the rise in the Bank of England's rediscount rate to the U. S. "Orgy of speculation." Bulls asked, "How much have British capitalists contributed to the 'orgy'? Did not the Hatry collapse indicate a similar orgy...