Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General James A. Farley introduced the President to his radio audience-was New York's Governor Herbert Lehman. Considerably farther removed from the New Deal than he was before he objected to the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court last summer, Governor Lehman delivered a speech which, in the oratorical chorus, represented counterpoint rather than close harmony. Its strongest note: "A political party, like government itself, must be the servant of the people, not their master. It must be ... open-minded but not visionary, courageous but not impulsive, progressive but not impractical...
Smiling benignly at the crowd, Dictator Hague began his prepared speech (broadcast by the Chamber of Commerce to let other cities "see how we settle our labor problems"), soon slipped into a harangue described by Columnist Westbrook Pegler as "largely incoherent noise...
...Butterfly sung in Russian -in the finest presentation I have ever seen. . . . Russia today is safe, secure: there is no worry there, no fear. I didn't go hungry. I ate almost better than I ever have! I don't speak Russian. The people really have free speech. If they wanted to, the Russian people could get rid of their present leaders, but they don't want...
...surely depended upon to keep us out of war than the mass of the voters? Still, as in 1917, they are the most pacific group in the nation after months of interventionist propaganda. Can we rely on the President after his disregard of the neutrality laws, after his Chicago speech, after the tone of his representations to Japan in the "Panay" incident? Or can we rely on the Diplomatic Service, as notoriously Anglophile as the intellectuals in the Harvard Government Department? Can we count upon Congress to keep us out of war when we have just seen it bow before...
...Leigh, a quiet but prolific speechmaker, entered a banquet hall in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel by way of an anteroom full of books, charts, photographs, machines-all concerned with the improvement of voice technique; sat down to eat with 500 members of the earnestly convening National Association of Speech Teachers; then said to them: "I doubt whether more than ten persons can get together and do much in advancing ideas or thought. ... I wonder if the teachers of speech might not be more helpful to humanity if they taught silence...