Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austin and then by Illinois' Lewis who attacked the Bill. While Lewis spoke, Vice President Garner and Leader Barkley were conducting a, tour of the Chamber, stopping to chat with colleagues who wanted to amend the Bill or make long comments on it. Senator Lewis ended his speech with a challenge to the Bill's sponsor. When McCarran rose to reply, the Vice President, by this time back at his seat, cut him short by snapping...
...shot back Senator McCarran, stopping his speech to pick up some papers from his desk and send them to the reading clerk...
...before an emergency court in Berlin was Rev. Dr. Friedrich Otto Dibelius. eminent theologian and general superintendent of the Confessional Synod. He was charged by Nazi Church-Minister Hans Kerrl with publishing a letter last winter falsely accusing Minister Kerrl of mocking, in a public speech, that ABC of Christian doctrine-that Jesus is the Son of God. Three competent attorneys appeared for Dr. Dibelius; the public was admitted except when Minister Kerrl was present; the press was admitted throughout the trial...
...Church Minister, supported by two chief assistants, mumbled and blustered. He could not remember exactly what he had said in his speech but how could Dr. Dibelius know-he was not there. Six witnesses, however, backed the defendant: two stated emphatically that the speech had been an anti-Christian attack; one produced painstaking notes that he had taken down at the time. Dr. Dibelius won another point by revealing that he had sent a copy of the accusing letter, before its publication, to Adolf Hitler and other Cabinet members, had received no replies forbidding or otherwise. For eight hours...
...line had come the 5,000,000th word they had written for which somebody else took credit. Their business is producing and selling written matter at so much a word under the name of Ghostwriters Bureau, which they founded in February, 1933. The word "wonderful" was part of a speech they were writing for a Rotary Club luncheon in Kansas...