Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four days later Homer Martin, President of the United Automobile Workers, invaded New Jersey and made a speech at Newark in answer to Mr. Hoffman. He pointed out that strikes are legal. "What is the difference," he asked "if a man sits down inside or sits down outside?" The only difference he could find was that sitting down inside is easier and safer for the striker. To the argument that sit-down strikes break property laws, he argued back that the right to a good pay check is a property right just as much as the right to own property...
...easy for both the President's admirers and opponents to slip into platitudes about last night's Victory speech. The occasion begged him to pat the party and himself on the back, and the revived memory of November could hardly have failed to infect him with extra self-confidence. This is the best excuse for the messianic tone of his remarks whose very perfection of delivery aroused enthusiasm and revulsion. No one quarrels with his key argument--that democracy must do more for the underprivileged--but the details of the redeal give pause to many...
...alarming part of the Victory speech was Roosevelt's determination to name himself as supreme genius of the new social order. He has no monopoly of humanitarian ideals nor are he and his clique the only ones who can write sound laws. To build the ark of his "more abundant life" he needs tons of objective, outside advice and a lot of rechecking. So long as he adds every no-man to the rolls of the Union League Club, so far will the construction fall short of the blue print...
...Nothing herein contained shall be construed to interfere in any way with the basic principle of the Constitution which assures every citizen freedom of thought and speech and the right to advocate changes and improvements in both state and federal constitutions...
...reason why the Boylston Prize, and the Lee Wade Prize which was later grouped with it, has remained a recitative spectacle rather than a genuine sally in public speaking is not hard to find. In a day when oratory was fine art, and the limbs and outward flourishes of speech more highly rates than keen thinking, the original bequest provided for "a public exhibition in elocution." The speaker was "never to rehearse his own composition," but merely to learn by rote some famous passage and deliver it as best he could. The Lee Wade competition even went...