Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wars have been declared. To undeclared wars the President can apply the Neutrality Act or not, as he sees fit. The law for which the Panay sinking last week surprisingly supplied momentum in Congress was one which, as an expression of pacifism, made the Neutrality Act look like a speech by Mussolini...
...half-a-dozen Senators on their feet clamoring to be heard, he put an end to four weeks of haggling, took a final roll call on the Pope-McGill Farm Bill. It was passed 59-to-29. His act was a defiance of the sacred tradition of free speech in the Senate, and an eminently sensible thing to do because 1) the bill was going to be passed anyhow, 2) its form was immaterial-it and the far different House bill will be combined and rewritten in conference-and 3) the important theatre of action in farm legislation was last...
...knows. . . . One day an inflationist, the next a deflationist. A fixer of prices who denounces his own creations, a giver of what he calls 'the more abundant life' who orders the destruction of food while millions of his fellow-countrymen are undernourished. A great preacher of free speech who threatened the political ruin of the Senator who for the sake of principle opposed his Supreme Court 'reform.' A bitter critic of bureaucracy who has created so many bureaux that Washington cannot contain them. A stern advocate of economy who has spent more money than any President...
That a dominion-the Free State has "dominion status"-should break openly in foreign policy with the mother country is unprecedented. The dominions are now regularly "consulted" on foreign issues by the British Cabinet. At League of Nations sessions the delegate of this or that dominion sometimes makes a speech which causes his London colleagues to shudder. But for Dublin to recognize Vittorio Emanuele III as "Emperor," whereas London recognizes him only as "King," was diplomatic mutiny...
Most of the labor sessions-largely devoted to undiluted labor-baiting-were closed to the Press. But reporters were led in to hear a speech by Hartley W. Barclay, the Mill & Factory editor who defied a subpoena from the National Labor Relations Board last fortnight, which he maintained was a violation of the Freedom of the Press. Before Editor Barclay spoke, a list of newspapers and wire services represented was read off to the businessmen because: "No doubt you will want to get these papers and see how they treat our people." After the Barclay speech the reporters were...