Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin. Five days previously Young Bob, over a nationwide radio network, had signed on with his brother Phil's new political party. If Senator Bob was kinder to the President ("one of the great liberal leaders of modern times") in his speech than Governor Phil had been in Madison last month, he was equally firm in his conviction that the Roosevelt Administration was hopelessly bogged down, that the La Follette National Progressives were the U. S.'s only answer...
This expression of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's alarm at the bulging group of quasi-judicial Federal agencies which take evidence, hand down decisions and generally fulfill functions formerly reserved to the courts insofar as they were performed at all was the most significant point in a speech he delivered before the American Law Institute last week. It was not, however the part of the Hughes speech which got the biggest headlines. This distinction was reserved for an apparently innocuous generalization: ". . . The prime necessity in making the judicial machinery work to the best advantage is the able...
Grousing of another sort at Generalissimo Franco was whispered last week by functionaries of the French Foreign Office in Paris. Favored journalists were tipped that under arrest in Saragossa, for having made a speech in which he attacked the Rightist Air Force for too vigorous bombing, was famed General Juan Yague, who led the recent Rightist drive which captured Lerida (TIME, April 11). Information that General Yague is out of circulation came from French secret service agents in Rightist territory, made a rattling good story on the Quai d'Orsay. Hot-tempered, hot-tongued General Yague was reported...
...took his idea to Edouard Herriot, who talked to Leon Blum. Government backing was promised. Last week, at a graceful little ceremony in Paris, Minister of Education Jean Zay welcomed a handsome new publication, Monde Libre (Free World), attributed its inspiration to President Roosevelt's "quarantine the aggressor" speech in Chicago, dedicated it to better mutual understanding among democratic nations...
Linking Depression and New Deal, the Chamber's dry, bespectacled president, 62-year-old George Harvey Davis of Kansas City, gave the pitch of this year's business hymn in his opening speech. Excerpt: "Back of all of the questions that will be brought before you for discussion during these three days lies a much larger question. It is whether business-the American system of business-is to endure or whether some other kind of system, is to take its place...