Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five commissioners stared fixedly at the Commoners. In unison they slowly raised their black tricorn hats three times in greeting. Then Lord Chancellor Sankey read the King's speech, a speech which everybody knows is not written by the King at all but by the Prime Minister, a speech supposed to give the policies and promises of the new Government...
Short, MacDonald-George V speech was notably unexciting. Salient points...
...speech was as notable for what it did not say as for what it said. No actual date was given for the calling of another naval reductions conference. There was no mention of Prime Minister MacDonald's proposed visit to Washington. Government operation of the coal mines was barely hinted. The only unexpected parts were the paragraphs referring to the appointment of a liquor commission, a sop to such ultra-dry Laborites as Philip Snowden; and a proposed commission to investigate proportional representation in elections, a peace offering to the Liberals...
London's Evening Standard aptly summed up the entire speech with the headline: CARROTS AND COMMISSIONS. "Commissions to investigate everything; carrots to keep the Liberal 'moke' [donkey] at a hopeful and useful trot for as long as Labor has need...
Moton. Dr. Robert Russa Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute for Negroes, made a speech about race relations. His points: Negroes are not inferior to whites, but more backward. They want civic equality, not intermarriage. "The Negro and the white can live together side by side in amity, if both are educated...