Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortune for the President, not only giving him the opportunity to appoint anyone he wished to the Supreme Court instead of Senator Robinson who had a virtual claim on the one existing vacancy, but also because dropping the Court fight might prevent a permanent split in the party. The speech of Hatton Sumners, which the House had so vigorously applauded, was full of such sentiments...
...Booze's husband. First was the mayor's celebration, beginning on Sunday, with six Negro preachers participating in Memorial Services for the Founders, carrying on at 12:05 a. m. that night with a breakfast dance in the Casino Ballroom over Henry Bolton's store, a speech by the eminent Negro Statesman Roscoe Conkling Simmons (familiar to all attendants at Republican National Conventions), and a showing of motion pictures of the fight of the century: Joe Louis beating World Champion James J. Braddock (25? admission). And so on to Friday...
Harry Bridges denies that he is a communist. He is not a member of the Communist Party. He simply says communists make good unionists. The speech most used against him was made last spring at the University of Washington: "We take the stand that we as workers have nothing in common with the employers. We are in a class struggle, and we subscribe to the belief that if the employer is not in business his products still will be necessary and we still will be providing them when there is no employing class. We frankly believe that day is coming...
Many osteopaths on the way to their national convention in Chicago last week understood that King George VI's personal osteopath was to make them a speech and thus put a royal gloss on their rising profession. Dr. W. Kelman Macdonald of Edinburgh, who was the American Osteopathic Association's chief guest, does not belong to the King's medical household. Nearest approach to an osteopath in that prize group of British doctors is the Manipulative Surgeon to the King Sir Morton Smart...
...Agustin Justo, President of Argentina, has long been running this Republic in a manner smacking of Dictatorship. While still acting as Foreign Minister, Dr. Saavedra Lamas expects soon to retire. Not being in sympathy with Dictatorship, he gave the Monroe Doctrine a clever new twist, managed to make a speech which created a Latin-American sensation and which hardly could have been delivered in General Justo's Argentina had it been less clever...