Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Alva Adams of Colorado shifting from one foot to the other during the Roosevelt speech at Pueblo (Mr. Adams' home town), waiting, while 15,000 people listened, to see what the President would say to help (or hinder) his renomination. Franklin Roosevelt spoke for ten minutes, praised the Royal Gorge of the Colorado River-and never once mentioned Mr. Adams. But neither did he mention Mr. Adams' opponent, old Justice Benjamin C. Hilliard, who had suddenly gone to Kansas to see a sick brother. So Mr. Adams' punishment for opposing the President's Court plan...
...Excerpts from the standard rear-platform speech which the President made with variations at minor stops throughout the West...
...vague memory of my son and in vivid hopes of their sons, if parents, while preserving freedom of speech, compel the integrity of public education, then my son may not have died wholly in vain. But should parents fail in this perpetual vigil of peace, then in war will come slaughter between Communist sons and loyal sons -not abroad but at home...
...combined), tell what they did every step of the way through the six years. When they came to a new subject (such as communication), they divided into small groups to tackle separate topics, sent individual members out to hunt the answers to questions about the origin of human speech, the telephone, printing presses. By senior year they had explored many fields that ordinary high-school students seldom know-Columbus slums. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., the position of women in Byzantine civilization, the motion picture industry, alchemy. They went to Detroit and New York City to study labor...
Meanwhile, he was developing such an ear for southern speech that when a hitchhiker said, "I shore do thank ye," Author Daniels thought he must be a novelist in disguise. It sounded more natural when a Cherokee Indian playing a slot machine exclaimed, "Hell, it's a gyp," still more natural when a home-loving Tennessean, standing on a hilltop in his undershirt, told him proudly, "There are not many places like this one. ... I never could figure out what I went for, ex cept maybe I was young and wanted to see the world...