Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four inches to his girth, but that is much less than some of his lieutenants have gained. The early Hitler accent was typical of the Austrian civil service class into which he was born. Educated Austrians declare it had a Czech flavor. Now he has a more cultivated speech. The voice is noticeably coarser and Herr Hitler, despite the assurances of six attending physicians, is still worried about cancer of the throat...
...incident occurred during a Mussolini speech to the pick of his Blackshirts, assembled in Rome from all over Italy's knee, shin, heel and toe. The Blackshirts were on a jaunt. All expenses to and from Rome had been paid. In their pockets were fine crisp bank notes, "prizes" for Fascist merits, ranging from 500 to 2,000 lire. All this conspired to confuse them when Il Duce rhetorically touched on the subject of self-sacrifice. Confidently expecting a negative answer, he threw back his head and bellowed: "Do you want riches? Do you want glory? Do you want...
Taken aback, Orator Mussolini cleared his throat, changed the subject and went on, but the heart had gone out of the act. The speech over, the Blackshirts, innocent of their error and still warm with the thought of comforts to come, hurried out and treated the town to a mass souse such as Rome has not seen since the days of Caligula...
...many a member of the U. S. hierarchy-Father Spellman was made an assistant to the Papal Secretary of State in 1925, thereafter became one of the Vatican's most useful U. S. prelates. He it was who rebroadcast in English the late Pope's first radio speech. He it was who, in 1931, smuggled out of Italy, by airplane, an anti-Fascist papal encyclical which was in danger of being suppressed. When the present Pope visited the U. S. in 1936, no prelate was more in his company than Bishop Spellman...
...Field guns lined the big hall. On the platform sat the great & good of Seattle's churches. Unconsidered among these bigwigs sat an uninvited guest -an obscure, churchless Congregational minister, Rev. Louis E. Scholl, 62. As he listened to the invocation by a Roman Catholic priest and a speech on peace and democracy by Major General John F. O'Ryan (retired), Mr. Scholl was outwardly calm. Inwardly, however, he seethed with secret resolution. When at last the dean of Seattle's Episcopal Cathedral announced that a benediction would be pronounced by the President of the Seattle Council...