Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oregon had audience at the White House and announced that he was framing an agricultural measure which would, this time, omit features that have so vexed the President and include features which the President approves. Approved features, long known in a general way, were hinted at in a speech last week by President Coolidge to the National Grange as they will probably be hinted at again in the message to Congress, viz.: a Federal farm loan fund, further encouragement of co-operative marketing associations, further reliance upon the protective tariff. "Sometimes I wonder," said the President, "if gatherings of farmers...
...famed Alexander Graham Bell, whose wife was deaf. It was while experimenting on sound-amplification to aid the deaf that Dr. Bell invented the telephone, in 1876. One Jeanie Lippitt, now Mrs. William B. Weeden of Providence, R. I., was the first U. S. deaf-mute child to regain speech by the lipreading method...
...Kernel of the speech was yet another thought. The President-Reject said: "While it is true that every party must adhere to its fundamental principles, obstruction and blockade for the sole purpose of embarrassing the party in power are not calculated to promote the best interests of the country. It would be regarded as a constructive achievement if the Democratic party at Washington were to formulate a program, adopt it, offer it to the Congress of the United States and there defend it. A refusal on the part of the party in power to accept it or their inability...
What would the King say? For everyone knows that it is not really his own speech which the King reads, but Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's speech. And everyone knew, last week, that on the previous day the great Liberal peer, Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916, had ended his long political silence, had risen like a disturbing, provoking ghost, and had bitterly flayed the Conservative British Government for concluding with France the recent and notorious naval and military agreement or Pact (TIME...
What answer would the King's speech make to Ghost Grey, a Liberal whose fame recalls the bygone years when Britain's cabinet was also Liberal...