Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concerned with smaller subjects in this troubled world, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week had nothing on his mind except preparing 1) a message to Congress on the State of the Union, 2) another on the Budget and 3) a speech for his Party's Jackson Day dinner this week. While his children and grandchildren kept the White House gay during the days between Christmas and New Year's, the President put in a busy week in his study. When Congress convened this week he drove to the Capitol. There, to a packed chamber of Senators and Representatives...
Shrewdly President Roosevelt let others launch his attack on oligopoly, dispatching lieutenants to rostrum and microphone. Politicians suspected that all this was a build-up for a similar attack of his own. presumably to be delivered in his Jackson Day dinner speech this coming week. Opening shot was fired in a broadcast last fortnight by another Jackson, who happens to be head of the Department of Justice's anti-trust division-Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout J ackson. Bob Jackson, who is reputedly being groomed as the next Democratic Governor of New York State, last week followed his first...
...Senate quietly voted nonconfidence in the new Cabinet 83-10-4 but accepted the decree. In the Chamber, just as His Majesty's decree was about to be read by the Speaker, Dr. Ahmad Maher, irate ex-Premier El Nahas leaped up and tried to make a speech which began "In the name of the Fatherland. . . ." Tumult erupted, the police were called and the lights of the Chamber were extinguished, but the deputies, milling about in semidarkness, managed to keep the prorogation order from being read, voted nonconfidence 180-to-17. The police, ordered to eject the deputies...
Birthday. Carter Glass, senior Democratic Senator from Virginia; his 80th; in Washington, day after Congress reconvened. Said he of the President's speech (see p 11): "It was a very agreeable and engaging sort of a message, from his viewpoint...
...pledge not to fight in any war, denounced all policies that might lead to war. But last week war had become a less academic question and the delegates were confronted with a new peace plan- ''collective security." This program, advanced by President Roosevelt in his Chicago "quarantine" speech, implies embargoes and other sanctions against aggressor nations. Shouting that government embargoes (not the same as private boycotts) were the surest road to war, the Socialists, Trotskyites, Lovestonites and peace-at-any-price pacifists rallied behind the Oxford oath. To the support of "collective security" sprang the Communists and Roosevelt...