Word: speeches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Most noteworthy White House caller of the week was handsome Philippine High Commissioner Paul McNutt. Colonel McNutt had just made a radio speech strongly recommending that the current plan to give the Philippines independence in 1946 be reconsidered. The proposal had been applauded by Philippine President Manuel Quezon, who, in his public utterances at least, has heretofore been advocating independence not in 1946, but earlier. At the White House Colonel McNutt enlarged on his thesis that "if the Filipinos want it, an indefinite extension of American sovereignty" would be advantageous. The President, said Colonel McNutt, was favorably impressed...
...just what Mr. Lewis would have labor propose to the council of reason is still either his secret or his unsolved problem. However, Washington observers agreed with the Baltimore Sun's J. Fred Essary that Mr. Lewis' speech to the British Empire was "his most sensational bid for both labor and political leadership in this country and his most savage attack upon the Administration...
...admit with perfect equanimity that within a few years we will be only 50,000,000 whereas the Germans will be 80,000,000!" summed up Orator Mussolini, with a certain ambiguity for a peace speech. "But the Germans will not be on one but on ten frontiers, among which the Italian is the frontier between two friendly peoples-an intangible frontier...
...open forum held after the speech was transformed from a serious discussion to a state of mild hysteria, when a large bat flew into the Common Room and spent ten hectic minutes circling around the audience before he finally made his escape through an open window...
...bike race, the New York solons passed a bill banning radicals from state office. The bill defines communism as "the doctrine which advocates the destruction of the state by force and violence and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat or the advocation of the suppression of free speech...