Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second half of the book constitutes the New York Democrat's speech placing Al in nomination at the Houston convention. This is somewhat more flossy, necessarily so, conventions being what they are. Probably the speech is not great, but it boasts a certain happy phrasing and a very evident ring of sincerity...
Professor Pierce is one of the leading authorities in this country in the field of communication engineering. The naval officers who are studying under him will work with the the hydrophone, an instrument used for depth finding, signalling under water, and transmission of speech through the sea. The radio will be the special field of some of the men, as the primary, and often the only means of communication...
Your correspondent, L. F. Southwick of Connecticut, admits he is prejudiced against Governor Smith because the stubborn stamp of his upbringing on "the sidewalks of New York" makes him say "poisonal," "detoimined." And in his Omaha speech I heard plainly on the radio, "foist," "raddio." A man's a man for a' that...
Tennessee made ready to hear three Hoover speeches-two in Johnson City, one at Elizabethton, on Oct. 6. The date for the New York speech was moved up to Oct. 13. Someone asked the Nominee if he had no superstition about that date. "No," he replied, "I haven't. Besides, it's not Friday...
...Hooverism before an audience of Ohio Protestants. The evening after delivering her message to the Methodists at Lorain (TIME, Oct. 1), she visited a Presbyterian men's club at Warren. A long quotation about Tammany Hall corruption a generation ago was part of the speech. She had looked it up in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. She cried...