Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After Nominee Smith had finished his speech (see p. 14), the crowds stayed to hear the "Sidewalks of New York" and ''Sweet Adeline." It was a big evening. Mrs. Smith cried softly that night in the Hotel Statler...
Three halls, jammed as they had never been jammed before, received the Happy Warrior that night. First, he went to Mechanics and Symphony Halls, where 17.000 people risked limb, if not life, for two smiles and two dozen words by the Nominee, and for a long wait until his speech came in over the radio from the Boston Arena. It was after 9 o'clock when he reached the Arena, stuffy and emotionally boiling with 19,000 persons, where no more than 15,000 persons had ever been able to get in together before. Mrs. Francis B. Sayre (whom President...
Boston. Parrying the Hoover charge of '"Socialism!" (see p. 7) was the main concern of Nominee Smith's speech last week at Boston. The technique was characteristically Smithian, taking a text out of his opponent's mouth and working for a reductio ad absurdum. The Boston text was Mr. Hoover's: "We shall use words to convey our meaning, not to hide...
Philadelphia. After the icy rebukes of Charles Evans Hughes?that he had "stooped too low to conquer," etc., etc.? it was not surprising that Nominee Smith was boiling inwardly on his way to Philadelphia. His wrath became apparent during the delivery of his Philadelphia speech, in the bitterness of his tone and the fre quent unleashing of angry "ain'ts," which discreet shorthand reporters corrected into ''is nots" and "have nots" but which there was no concealing from the radio audience...
...Nominee Hoover's Boston speech, in which Nominee Smith's proposal of a non-partisan Tariff Commission was represented as a proposal to take Tariff control away from Congress, the Smith retort was: "What is the idea of all that? . . . I never suggested that the power of Congress be handed over to a commission, . . I ask that the Tariff Commission be rehabilitated and be strengthened, that the right type of people be appointed to it ... to lay before Congress and the people of the United States the underlying facts that sustain the reason for every change in a tariff schedule...