Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Declaration of Independence was new and the Constitution of the U. S." etc. etc.). But Mr. Burke and the President have since differed. He began to talk of trimming New Deal expenditures. Last summer he answered Secretary Wallace's Whose Constitution? in a speech called Our Constitution. Last August in mid-campaign he resigned from the Democratic National Committee. His reason presumably was the nomination of wild Terry Carpenter for the Senate on the Democratic ticket, but his letter to Chairman Farley had a two-edged paragraph: "I cannot work for the election of any candidate masquerading...
...Foster's Jimplecute takes hold and flourishes again, the national tongue may be enriched with a useful word for characterizing a thing once great, recently moribund, and once more reviving. There is real need for such a word. Phoenix is too classical a term, associated with the speech of political spellbinders and suggesting Arizona or life insurance to the casually trained; comeback, while genuinely native, has too verbal a connotation and is associated in the American sport-lover's memory with too many disappointed has-beens to be very useful. And the current American Recovery, plus the myriad...
...downer's fierce assertion of a proprietary right in his own job seemed more like communism's antithesis, an uncalculated species of simple anarchy. In asserting that right, the sit-downer did not lack for articulate defenders. Even Son James Roosevelt took it up when, in a speech for his father's Supreme Court plan at Anderson, S. C. last week, he remarked: "When you talk about the sanctity of property rights, you must remember that all the property rights which many people have are their jobs...
...Douglas was introduced at the Bond Club lunch last week the members to a man rose to give the personable young commissioner a resounding welcome. When he finished talking there was only a sprinkle of clapping. The New York Herald Tribune observed in a notable understatement that the speech left its hearers "grumpy." No public rebuttal developed, the bankers retiring in groups to their offices to sputter such redundant epithets as "inconsistent meddler," "impractical reformer," "theoretical logician...
Toronto still talks about the time that Jack Hammell ran a speech in a Toronto newspaper at full advertising rates, surprising the publisher if not himself when readers unanimously acclaimed it as the best feature of the day. Another Toronto millionaire prospector is Tony Oklend, an Austrian emigrant who staked Long Lac in 1926. From his pile he bought a big house in the suburbs, hired a platoon of servants headed by a butler. When the servants arrived he called them together to announce: "I don't care what you do around here but I do the cooking...