Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs, Ga. a reporter asked Franklin Roosevelt whether the report of his three-man railroad committee was on the way. The President asked whether he was supposed to be a clairvoyant. Another questioner asked whether he was pleased by Southern reaction to his Gainesville speech. To this the President, who likes to call Georgia his adopted State, made a reply that only an adopted Georgian would have given: that the only Southerner with whom he had talked was Irvin McDuffie, his Negro valet...
...interesting to note that the subjects selected by the two winners were resurrected from the era that produced the judges. A fine delivery of the modern verse of T. S. Eliot, and an eloquent presentation of the modern speech of a Southern Senator, went sadly unrewarded...
...failure to bring the Chamber and Senate cheering to their feet by a climactic purple passage or two leading up to La Patrie! Last week Premier Leon Blum, an intellectual of parts, had the nerve-racking experience of finding that neither the Chamber nor Senate would spark to a speech in which he used all the sure-fire La Patrie twists, introducing his new Popular Front Cabinet...
...week was this clearinghouse press system. During the first hectic days after anschluss (TIME, March 21) the lid of Nazi censorship was harshly clamped on Vienna's journalists. Telephone calls for foreign correspondents were tapped, mail was watched, teletype communications halted. When Adolf Hitler made his belated Vienna speech, 55 newsmen, the bulk of the foreign corps, were summoned to receive press passes, promptly caged at the point of Nazi guns, allowed to watch the scene only through the Chancellery windows...
Hissed, heckled, and occasionally cheered during a speech sponsored by Harvard University's Young Conservatives last week, Rev. Gerald L. K. ("Share the Wealth") Smith, erstwhile spiritual adviser to the late Senator Huey P. Long, declared that "rabble-rousing is needed to bring the country out of chaos," urged that "a chair of rabble-rousing" be established at Harvard...