Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amanda Dent of Carthage, Mo., aged 97, sister-in-law of President Grant's wife. Reason: impressed by the Hoover acceptance speech...
Nominee Hoover's next campaign speech was announced for September 14, in a Newark, N. J., armory. Subject: Labor...
...Outside of his recommendations for changes in our Prohibition enactments and his comments thereon, I regard Gov. Smith's acceptance speech as a convincing and able deliverance. That he will give us an effective enforcement of Prohibition as long as it is the law no one can justly doubt, after noting his declaration in that respect. I oppose and shall continue to oppose the changes he has suggested in the case of Prohibition, but I shall not permit my devotion to that great reform to blind me to the fact that other questions are calling imperatively for solution...
...Briand manfully braving the pinkish white glare of the flood lights made a speech which was later translated into English. He returned compliments to Secretary Kellogg and paid homage to first signator Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of Germany...
Last week, with frown and earnest speech, a group of Bretons foregathered in Chateaulin,* Brittany. Their purpose, characteristic, was serious. But Paris giggled...