Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Delano Roosevelt's exhibits the least touch of snappishness, it is major news. Last week, reporters lost no time in guessing that Franklin Roosevelt had finally stopped trying to conceal his serious concern about Depression. Right or wrong, the reporters' guess was reasonable. The Gainesville speech had touched off a selling wave that sent the stock market to new lows. Other business indices showed few signs of improvement...
...Gainesville, Ga. to dedicate a public square named after him. Introduced to the crowd of 20,000 by Georgia's Senator Walter F. George, who like most other Southern Congressmen, last summer went on record against the Wages & Hours Bill, the President ignored Mr. George in his speech, pointedly patted the back of loyal Governor Eurith D. Rivers and then proceeded to give his favorite theme-that Recovery is being held up by "minority selfishness"-a new twist...
...South's economic difficulties to old-fashioned feudalism, added that: "When you come down to it, there is little difference between the feudal system and the fascist system. If you believe in the one you lean to the other." Reaction to the President's curt speech by a tobacco-chewing crowd which had expected a few congratulatory truisms was one of silent, hurt amazement. Next day, it was echoed by the Southern press, by which time the President was in a fairly snappish mood himself...
...Father Coughlin denounced the World Court in 1935, Western Union and Postal Telegraph handled 200,000 telegrams to Congressmen. Last week, result of his exhortation fell just short of that record, but it was second to nothing else in the history of U. S. communications. For hours after his speech, anyone in New York City who hoped to send a telegram had to wait at least an hour because the whole facilities of both Postal Telegraph and Western Union were being used by Father Coughlin's responsive listeners. By the next day, when the time came for a vote...
Representative Gray, whose central conviction is that Congress has delegated to the President and the Federal Reserve System too much of its power to regulate the currency, devoted his first 15-minute speech to an unhurried introduction to his topic, happily concluded: "I thank you, fellow members of Congress, for your attention." His seven remaining talks will include discussions on The World Panic and the Disasters Following, The Remedy for Depressions, What Is Inflation? "I want to explain this Depression," says conscientious Finly H. Gray, "and at the close of the session you can't get enough time...