Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later parts of his speech he said...
...American Federation of Labor has resolved upon a non-partisan position during the campaign, but when President William Green of the A. F. of L. addressed the New York convention last week, he said: "I am convinced that Governor Smith's speech of acceptance and his reference to the abuse of injunctions has made a deep impression, in every industrial state. . . . I am satisfied that, when they go to the polls, they will stand by those who stood by them in their hours of need...
Nominee Robinson was notified of his honor, at Hot Springs, Ark., by Keynoter Claude Gernade Bowers. In his acceptance speech, the Nominee began by speaking of "the personal characteristics of the candidates," how interesting they were, and of "the poisons of slander and libel" to be "counteracted." He said...
Then he made a Farm Relief speech. He mentioned that, in 1921, the Republican Secretary of Agriculture (Henry Cantwell Wallace) recommended the first of the fiercely-disputed McNary-Haugen Bills and that President Coolidge vetoed the two McNary-Haugen Bills which Congress passed. He contended Herbert Hoover favored U. S. agricultural production for Home Demand, as opposed to World Demand. He said...
...close of each of her lectures she added a quiet, candid little speech, saying that her son has been a good president during his two four-year terms, and that she believes the Austrian statute against third terms ought to be waived by Parliament in his favor...