Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthurdale gave Franklin Roosevelt a rousing hand for his memorable speech, but in Washington there was a different reaction. Judging by what he had said, the President, it seemed, had not read the new Tax Bill, or had not understood it. Among those most deeply concerned was hard-working Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Members of both houses flocked into the Senate Chamber next day to hear Pat Harrison insist that "American principles and Government principles of long standing" had not been abandoned in the Tax Bill which he had helped to write...
...wanted to do something, if a tax factor could do it, that might assist in dispelling fear in the hearts of some people and restoring confidence in the mind of the American business man," said Senator Harrison, but the President's speech made it sound like "a monstrous tax bill," designed to let big taxpayers escape; on the contrary the first thing the bill did was positive-it erased the inequity of the old tax law by letting small businesses pay debts and meet deficits before levying on their undistributed profits, and by exempting all businesses earning less than...
...General was not on hand to hear the speech. At week's end it was not known definitely whether or not he had taken to the hills with some of his followers. As Federal troops continued to mop up the scattered rebel bands and killed, according to a Defense Ministry announcement, the General's nephew Hipolito Cedillo and eleven more agrarians, observers agreed that Boss Cedillo may have waited too long to be able to put on a large-scale revolt. But the Boss was still hoping for the support of five unnamed Governors to help...
...Suggested, unofficially, a trust company to "take over the functions of .banking, clearing of securities and the custodial duties of all members of the [New York] Exchange." Including this idea in his speech to the Association of Stock Exchange Firms at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. thus revived a proposal made in 1932 for reasons of economy by members of the Exchange itself...
Most ministers would grant that Fiorello LaGuardia's pulpit manner is unorthodox, but that his instinctive knowledge of homiletics is good, his exegesis not bad. Excerpt from his sermon to the police: " 'Give us this day our daily bread' is not a figure of speech. . . . What some of us who are called radical are trying to do is to answer that call in His name as He would have us do. That, gentlemen, is why the fight is still on. Christ knew that the symbol of the Cross He died on would be an everlasting reminder...