Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family quite as colorful as that of his late great cousin, Theodore. Last week the President's son Elliott was starting a Fort Worth radio chain, his son Franklin Jr. and Du Pont daughter-in-law were honeymooning in Europe, his son James was making an Indianapolis speech that was covered by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in her column "My Day," and the President's 82-year-old mother was sightseeing in Italy. None of their routine activities, however, constituted the President's major family distraction of the week. This took place at Cannes, France, whose Mayor Pierre...
...before the end, Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph Guffey called at the White House. That evening he made a radio speech denouncing the three Senators who did most to defeat the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. "Political ingratitude carries with it its own punishment both swift and effective," said Senator Guffey. As political ingrates sure to be defeated when they come up for reelection he named three Democrats, Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Nebraska's Edward R. Burke and Montana's Burton K. Wheeler. From Senator Guffey, a spokesman...
...feel highly honored, Mr. President, that the Senator from Pennsylvania has singled me out as one of three members of the Senate for the purpose of broadcasting a speech which everyone knows he did not write and which everyone knows he would not have dared to deliver on the floor of the Senate...
When Senator Guffey had heard Senator Burke call his radio speech "cheap stuff, tawdry stuff;" when West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt had called him the ally of "bosses and corruptionists" and when Senator Wheeler, shaking a long lean finger at his enemy, had croaked: "Lay on Macduff and damned be he that first cries Hold, Enough," the Senate had seen a very bitter scene of personal animosity...
...July 19, Congressman W. D. McFarlane, in a speech replete with facts . . . said that upon receiving your experimental license . . . you immediately raised the price of your radio advertising time some 50% and continued to collect handsome commercial profits on the basis of experimentation for these 39 months, a practice which you know is definitely prohibited by the rules of the Commission...