Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, McAdoo rarely makes a speech (his voice is high, squeaky) except on behalf of his pet project: no Panama Canal tolls for intercoastal shipping. In Washington, he is considered a greatly diminished public figure, but still a shrewd political opportunist. Popularly supposed to telephone the White House before casting a vote, he has voted for: Emergency banking legislation, legalizing 3.2 beer (he was a Dry favorite in 1924), 25? limitation on veterans' pension cuts (1933): Gold Restriction Act, Bankhead Cotton Act (1934); Wagner Act (1935); Wagner Housing Act, Neutrality Act, taxation of Federal tax exempt securities, Naval expansion...
Ohio's Governor Martin L. Davey, campaigning for renomination on the Democratic ticket, delivered an impassioned speech to an audience of 100 people in the town of Chardon, was dismayed to learn that the county Democratic organization had made no plans for his appearance, that the 100 were all Republicans...
...made himself one of Britain's shipping tycoons. As a businessman, keen Son Runciman added to the vast family fortune and prestige. Before the War, he was an outspoken champion of peace between Britain and Germany, delivered a public rebuke to Lord Roberts for having in a preparedness speech called war between them "inevitable...
...House of Commons last week adjourned to November 1, giving the Chamberlain Cabinet a general vote of confidence after a speech in which the Prime Minister explained his novel move for solving the Czechoslovak Question (see p. 15). The session closed with a fiery field day of spouted indignation because ships of the Royal Navy continue to stand by while British freighters are bombed in the ports of Leftist Spain. No fervent orator, however, went so far as to demand the alternative: that Spanish Rightist bombers be fired upon by Britons. As members sped to their homes, the Spanish...
Until last fortnight only the semi-official Papal newspaper, Osservatore Romano, had dealt with Italy's burgeoning racism. Twice thereafter, however, Pope Pius XI himself spoke publicly against it. Last week the aging Holy Father, in a speech to Catholic seminarians visiting him at Castel Gandolfo, summed it up in the most vigorous words he has uttered for years. Pounding home his recently-repeated point that "Catholic means universal," the Pope said: "We regard racism and exaggerated nationalism as barriers raised between man and man, between people and people, between nation and nation. ... All men are, above all, members...