Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul speech was informal. Farm relief and inland waterways were but two of many subjects it touched. Other subjects...
...very effective speech-making and most of the Presbyterian gentlemen of Warren, Ohio, went home shaking their heads about cocktails and parties and Tammany and all the rest...
There was, to begin with, hollow-cheeked, insurgent Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, where the trip started. He it is who is supposed to guard the Progressive mantle of the late, great LaFollette. The Omaha speech on farm relief received a nod of Norris approval. Of the Denver waterpower speech, Senator Norris said: "... Great! . . . We're up against the greatest monopoly, the greatest attempt at control of great resources, ever undertaken since the days of Jesus Christ!" The Omaha World-Herald, daily newspaper of the Brown Derby's advisor, onetime Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska...
Though Edward of Wales often goes about unrecognized, and although Motorist George V has had several encounters with stupid traffic policemen, London editors could not recall that Queen Mary has ever before escaped recognition or suffered pert speech from one of her female subjects...
...doggerel line about stopping the "Inky pinky . . . Socialists' dope" proved to be almost the theme of Prime Minister Baldwin's platform speech. Said he: "The great campaign issue is once more, as it was in 1924, the challenge of Socialism against constitutionalism and against British individualism. On that issue the way that the People of Great Britain will vote cannot be doubted...