Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House so thickly that Laborite M.P. Richard Gibson had to take refuge in one of the galleries with a host of peers, foreign diplomats and other bigwigs, including the famed economist Sir Josiah Stamp and Bank of England's eccentric Governor Montagu Norman. So staggering was the Budget speech which all were keyed up to hear that Montagu Norman was reported next day to have "looked bewildered as if he could not follow or believe what he heard...
...soon as the speech was over Laborite Clement Attlee, leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition, leaped to his feet and thundered: "This is the first of a new series of war budgets whereunder we are marching straight into another conflagration...
...precisely this point of view as contrasted with Norman Maine's own evaluation of his decline and its effect on his wife that gives the latter portion of A Star Is Born its effectiveness. The drunken speech in which Maine betrays his jealousy when his wife gets an Academy Award; his sojourn in a sanatorium to recover from the jitters; his fist fight with Niles's pressagent at Santa Anita race track, are related with superlative detachment. They lead up to the climactic scene in which sunset on the Pacific-a magnificent shot which is possibly the best...
...Economics lectures hold the spotlight tonight in the extra-curricular speech field, while Philosophy comes into its own tomorrow afternoon...
Walsh traced the history of the CIO's split with the A. F. of L., showing how Green continued Gompers' business unionism, craft unionism, and non-politicalism. During the speech he drew freely from the background of his recent research work on the Wertheim Fellowship...