Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Progressive) had declared against the debenture plan. Last week, under threats of political reprisals from his state, he said he would now support it. He added lamely a hope that it would never be used. "The People." The new Kansas Senator, Henry Justin Allen, made his first speech in the Senate, supporting the President's opposition to debentures. When he said, "the people who sent me here-!" a time-honored congressional cliche, there were grins on the Democratic side, snickers in the gallery. As everyone but the Senator recalled, the "people" who sent Senator Allen were not the voters...
...great a man, as well as Democrat, is Jouett Shouse, that to him is given major credit for inducing the G. O. P. to go to his city for its convention last year. Lawyer, farmer, banker, son of a Kentucky clergyman (Protestant), strong of mind, bold of speech, he will now take prominent place on the political battlements of the capital. Briefly, his duty will be to eye the Hoover administration; to look for, mark, proclaim its errors; to direct against it the archery of partisan criticism until next election. Chairman Raskob prepared to withdraw into the Democracy...
...protean Albert Carroll, impish imitator of the grimaces and posturings of famed actresses. In this latest edition−a mockery fest which simultaneously jibes at world history, actors, producers, Broadway hits−Mimic Carroll simulates the jiggling gait of Beatrice Lillie (This Year of Grace), the lush, salivary speech of Constance Collier (the countess in Serena Blandish), the Jewish idiom of Fannie Brice (Fioretta), the long-legged, weaving rhythms of Gertrude Lawrence (Treasure Girl). He is far less successful in his one attempt to imitate a man, to catch the elusive implications of silent Harpo Marx (Animal Crackers). There...
This point was the very core of the U. S. proposals presented in Geneva a fortnight ago by Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson, personal friend and confidential representative of Mr. Hoover. At the earliest opportunity last week Comrade Litvinov rose and moved a resolution closely paraphrasing Mr. Gibson's speech. The delegates of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission were asked by the cheerful Russian to declare that they are engaged in promoting "drastic reduction of armaments...
...celebration was a parade of the city's native-born children. The first manchild, now 20, proudly presented a bouquet to the city's first and only Mayor, Meyer Diezengoff. Great Britain was represented by Maj. J. E. F. Campbell, District Commissioner of Southern Palestine, who made his speech in fluent Hebrew...