Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suggested by Michigan's Democratic Senator Prentiss Brown in a Bunker Hill Day speech in Boston last week was a novel method of suppressing industrial warfare: repeal the Constitutional right to bear arms, a privilege guaranteed by the Bill of Rights to every U. S. citizen. While Senator Brown was advancing this notion, a Michigan Representative was invoking this very Constitutional privilege by turning his law office into a recruiting office for a private army...
...bill of 1934 whose loopholes he is now pointing out. Moreover, before becoming Under Secretary, he was a professor at Columbia University and wrote several learned books on taxation which pointed out the kinds of tax avoidance which were legal, the kinds that were illegal evasions. One speech of his was regarded as such valuable advice on how to save on taxes that Manhattan's Chemical Bank published and circulated it. Washington watched alertly to see if some of the mud kicked up by the President's tax-dodger hunt might not land in New Dealer eyes...
...expected mob. The Governor finally arranged that the meeting should be held at a State park three miles from Monroe, promised to have 350 guardsmen on hand to keep the union men out of the anti-union town and also see that the union's "right of free speech" was not abrogated...
Making the first big public speech of his career, Ernest Hemingway did not appear until 10 p.m. while groups of his agitated admirers tried to locate him in hotels and bars, checking the airport where he had landed after flying from Bimini. Arriving while Walter Duranty was still speaking, he paced the wings before going onstage muttering: "Why the hell am I making a speech?'' But as he began to describe what he had seen reporting the Spanish war, he warmed up eloquently...
...Kaiser. Before the year passed the same professor wrote one of the thousand articles to show why this country must needs be even in thought passionately pro-Ally and anti-German. Separate worlds formed within this country and soon ceased to communicate with each other by rational speech: the pro-Ally camp, the pro-German group, the neutrals hated by both, then the pacifists and the militarists. All this while we were still only spectators of the configuration which was consuming Europe...