Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anti-Saloon League founders, the Rev. Howard Hyde Russell may be isolated as "the Founder." Last week indeed he dedicated a monument commemorating a temperance speech made by Abraham Lincoln in 1846. The monument's inscription contains, in large capitals, the name of Abraham Lincoln, in slightly larger capitals the name of Howard Hyde Russell, described as "Founder of the Anti-Saloon League...
...radio speech at New Orleans last week Mr. Hoover estimated that the flood "has left in its track over 700,000 flooded, and of them over 600,000 dependent upon assistance." The discrepancy (Hoover 700,000; Red Cross 560,000) was accounted for by the fact that the figures for Louisiana are still incomplete. Observers agreed that Louisiana refugees probably numbered 200,000 and that from 75,00 to 100,0000 more Louisiana refugees would be added before the flood ended...
...David Lloyd George delivered on this general theme the greatest speech which he has made this year. His mane of white hair bristled, and he spoke with a fire that carried conviction...
...Besides, after this speech I propose to place upon my tongue not the usual Athenian bull, but a couple of oxen, and I shall not speak again till next year...
...Honorable Fascist Deputies," he said, "I am very sorry and profoundly humiliated to announce to you that my speech today will not be as short as mine usually are . . . I need to take the Italian nation and place it in front of itself...