Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress in 1934, lost by 101 votes. Since 1935 he has held a $4,600 job as Chief Field Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue. His platform this year: 100% for Roosevelt. His most earnest hope: that Franklin Roosevelt or James Aloysius Farley will have time for at least one speech in the Gashouse before election...
...figure of a man who starts to saw off the leg of a friend when he sees the ankle grabbed by an octopus, as Cartoonist Jerry Doyle of the New York Post observed (see cut). Editor Dawson, three days after his "sawing" editorial, made amends. He praised the speech of Czechoslovak President Benes (see p. 19) as "a model of what a public utterance should be," denounced No. 2 Nazi Göring for making at Nürnberg (see p. 19) what the London Times called "the speech of a bully whose fury makes even sympathizers with the German...
After the district leaders came 38,000 children who piped ecstatically, "We thank our Führer" after a speech in which he told them: "When Providence takes me from my people I will hand to the next Führer a country welded by iron bonds." A bit more volume was turned on as No. 3 Nazi Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels made a screaming oration to Party officials in which he flayed former U. S. Ambassador to Germany Dr. William E. Dodd and climaxed "President Benes of Czechoslovakia owes his election to the Communist vote!" Then...
Last week's figurative green light was flashed by Josephus Daniels, now U. S. Ambassador to Mexico and an admiring friend of New Dealer Cardenas. The envoy of an unnamed third State called on Ambassador Daniels, warned him that President Cardenas was almost sure to make a speech rejecting the note in which Secretary Hull recently demanded immediate compensation for the seized properties, and offered to join the U. S. Ambassador in snubbing Orator Cardenas by staying away from his speech. Mr. Daniels refused this offer, genially let it be known that, since he understands hardly a word...
...reply to a diplomatic note by a public speech is regarded in most of the world's chancelleries as a great crudity...