Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Bill Douglas will not put his lanky legs on the high court's august desk or chain-smoke cigarets during hearings, he may often wish he could. That is the way he behaved in the chair of SEC. His care less clothes, sandy hair awry, speech plain as a pikestaff, are essentially characteristic of the young man who only 17 years ago herded sheep and bummed on box cars to get East for his legal education...
Next day the Chamber's native chancellor, the Maharaja of Nawanagar, made a sympathetic speech acknowledging the grievances. Then the princes drove home in their lavender limousines and gold-plated sports jobs...
...Emerson, who delivered his stock arguments, the committee's treasurer, Sumner W. Gerard, who claimed that the New Deal was out to rook doctors for the sake of a "piece of cheese," and defeated Democratic Congressman Samuel Pettengill of Indiana, who delivered a full-throated 1940 campaign speech...
...Adolf Hitler and Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie") Coughlin, loudly booed President Roosevelt ("Rosenfeld" to Bund speakers). Ejected from the meeting was Pundit Dorothy Thompson, who laughed shrilly at a speaker's citation of the Golden Rule. The rally was perfectly legal, and Bund-sters' freedom of speech was protected by police. All this moved Liberal Caswell to write: "It could well be that a rather severe limitation of liberty and even a censorship might not be too high a price to pay to save democracy from complete destruction." To a liberal group which met last week...
...orthodox social drama, but a series of startling angle shots, a kind of vivid grotesque. Its Jewish humor and pathos spring each from the other's loins. Its people are both more and less than three-dimensional: in their behavior they are often cardboard vaudevillians, but in their speech they are illiterate poets, and in their instincts they can be keen as animals...