Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year, 1937, I nominate Congressman Hatton W. Sumners of Texas. Here is a statesman and a great patriot, a man with the courage of his convictions. His speech on the floor in Congress, in opposition to the Court packing plan, will go down in history as one of the most important factors in the defeat of that bill...
...This speech won Alf Landon little credit for originality or perspicacity. First reply to it-like the first reply to Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chat the week before -came from Columnist Hugh Johnson on his conveniently-timed Bromo Quinine program. Not satisfied with disparaging Alf Landon's argument, he mocked Alf Landon's pronunciation by repeating a Landon slip: "attackted." In Manhattan next day, Herbert Hoover said tersely "It was a good speech" but failed to send Alf Landon congratulations...
President Conant's speech before the educational conference in New York brings to light a theory of education based on the evaluation of a student's ability along special lines. The means of testing this ability in the student who is not overly brilliant in one specific field, but who possesses definite talent in another, is by a combination of various methods of testing. This would involve a merger of such examinations as those conducted by the College Entrance Examination Board, but would not be limited to a specific subject. This general aspect of the examinations would permit the student...
...years as Special Prosecutor, Mr. Dewey has not unearthed any more conclusive proof of the unregenerate nature of Tammany Hall than in his speech last Sunday in which he showed that Albert Marinelli, Tammany leader in the 2nd Assembly District and New York County Clerk, was a personal friend of "Lucky" Luciano and actually went on a party with him in Chicago while Luciano was hiding from Dewey's investigation. To this accusation, Mr. Marinelli, a shadowy figure with a large estate on Long Island, has no comment to make, and it is indeed hard to see how there...
...Reynolds concluded his speech with the statement that "there is no need to lay down a uniform policy for all industries. It is the objective which is important, not the method...