Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Antietam Battlefield, north of Washington, the President spent 40 minutes watching a re-enactment of the bloodiest day of the Civil War. Saving most of his fire for his Constitution Day address in Washington the same evening (see col. 3), he got a cool response to a short speech which contained only one notable reference to the New Deal: "I believe also that the past four years mark the first occasion, certainly since the War Between the States and perhaps during the whole 150 years of our Government, that we are not only acting but also thinking in national terms...
...conversations with President Roosevelt, Secretaries Hull and Woodring (who, it was again rumored last week, would soon resign as Secretary of War to replace High Commissioner McNutt at Manila) had convinced him that it would be wiser to get along amiably with Commissioner McNutt took the form of a speech at an open-air banquet in Manila's Rizal Stadium. President Quezon, who had called on Commissioner McNutt the day after his return, declared: "As the Representative of the President of the United States, the High Commissioner naturally takes precedence over the President of the Philippines...
...been called a Dictator!" roared "Mitch" in a recent typical speech. "If you don't dictate, they call you 'vacillating!' . . . it's hard to please everybody- but I stand on my record...
Enemies. Nearly one-third of Mr. Lewis' speech was reserved for the enemies he acquired during the strike in "Little Steel," particularly Chicago's Mayor Kelly, whose policemen he said killed ten workers in the Memorial Day massacre at a Republic Steel plant. Conspicuously missing from the Lewis speech was any reference to Steelman Tom Girdler, on whom Mr. Lewis usually lavishes his fine talent for invective. Reason: on the advice of Columbia Broadcasting lawyers he deleted his sulphurous remarks about Mr. Girdler.* Also toned down were some of the phrases about Governor Davey, whose militiamen broke...
...Seiju Hirakawa: "The present invasion of China by Japan is motivated by a militaristic clique which is trying to protect the Manchukuo experiment ... a colossal failure. Ninety per cent of Japan is against the present undeclared war. . . ." Said Ryumei Yamano: ''In Japan we have no freedom of speech...