Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reverting to the simile of his Jackson Dry speech-that $600,000,000 of holding company money controlling $13,000,000,000 of utilities is like a four-inch tail wagging a a6-in. dog-Franklin Roosevelt summed it up for the reporters: Mr. Willkie simply wished to legalize the four-inch tail for all eternity. The President would never agree to that...
...first crack in C. I. O.'s façade appeared when the Garment Workers' official organ, Justice, laid the blame for the collapse of the A. F. of L.C. I. O. peace negotiations on John L. Lewis (TIME, Jan. 10). But the Dubinsky speech last week was the first time that one member of the C. I. O. high command has attacked another in open forum. Briefly and bluntly Mr. Dubinsky declared that the peace negotiators had arrived at a basis for settlement but that the formula was personally vetoed by John L. Lewis...
...Many readers of the Times," declared the New Statesman and Nation, "must have been puzzled by the following sentence that appeared in the Times'?, report of Mr. Parker's speech in the debate on Foreign Affairs on December 21st...
...there was any small, sour group of delegates who disliked Moscow's biggest party, awful warning not to spoil it had been given them, and by Joseph Stalin. In a speech the chief parts of which did not come through the censorship but whose text was printed and reprinted in Soviet papers, the Dictator said of the men and women up for election to Russia's new Parliament: "I cannot say with assurance that their ranks are free ... of such men whom the Russian proverb describes as 'neither God's candle, nor Devil's broom...
Most salable success secret in the U. S. at the moment is speech improvement. Last week Chicago's Better-Speech Institute of America gave evidence of the profitableness of this industry...