Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charter for the Republican Party. Governor La Follette's purpose was to launch a national political organization with the definite political objective of electing a bloc of Congressmen this fall, with the probable objective of electing himself President in 1940. His means were: 1) a two-hour speech broadcast all over the U. S., and 2) a manifesto of the new National Progressive Party of America's principles...
...immediate impression which many an observer got from the animadversions at Madison was that they were characterized by a refreshing and appealing amateurism. To this sort of audience, Governor La Follette's five-point manifesto and 9,000-word speech, apparently a family collaboration, failed to present even a pretense of a formal body of policy for progressives or anyone else to unite on. But they indicated a thorough awareness that "for ten years the Republicans and Democrats have been fumbling the ball," that the rest of the world was even worse off, and gave evidence that if Phil...
...governmental principles. His one pass at an economic technicality, the brief proposal of Government control of credit, was nowhere amplified. At very least it would mean nationalization of the Federal Reserve banks. At most, it would mean nationalization of the entire banking system. But when he waded into his speech, Phil La Follette spread himself enthusiastically and, to many a listener, compellingly over half the isms in the social and political dictionaries...
Orator Henlein professed to be uttering sentiments unanimously upheld by 75,000,000 Germans. He referred to the famed Reichstag speech in which Hitler pooled all Germans everywhere into one ocean of German blood. He ended by defying openly for the first time the Czechoslovak statute which forbids the existence of a Nazi Party-it has hitherto existed in Czechoslovakia sub rosa, has not dared to use the swastika Nazi symbol. Daring the Government to enforce the law, Führer Henlein climaxed: "Naziism is the guiding principle of our Party, the same as it is for all Germans throughout...
...Vcrbal Taboo in a College Community, by Edwin R. Hunter and Bernice E. Gaines, in American Speech, a quarterly (Columbia University Press...