Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round out the series of warnings to totalitarian nations that John Bull's full-sized helmet was ready to go in the ring, Prime Minister Chamberlain, in a speech in Lancashire, delved into Shakespeare's King John, pulled out this quotation...
...cages, microscopes, slide rules, test tubes and books, in moved other psychologists, economists, educators, historians, statisticians, physiologists and a few Yale students studying research. Then its 150 savants and their disciples donned white coats and set to work studying such things as crime, disease, unemployment, war depression, adolescents' speech defects, people's reactions to relief and to parking tickets...
...anticipation of Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins' maiden speech to U. S. Business (see p.11) the New York stockmarket last week popped out of its rut. More significant was the rise in stock prices morning after the appeasement speech-indicating that Wall Street at least was impressed. So was business generally. Although the New York Sun indulged in a Tory sniff ("Honeyed words, meaning little"), most press and business comments took the charitable point of view that Secretary Hopkins really meant what he said...
...good reason why politically-wise Harry Hopkins made no specific suggestions in his speech was explained by the Wall Street Journal: "Various New Deal officials and agencies had squared away for an open fight on Mr. Hopkins if he stuck a critical finger publicly into their particular affairs and the Secretary was content ... to deal in generalities . . . and keep specific suggestions in reserve...
Harry Hopkins was not solely responsible for his Des Moines speech. As with most key New Deal utterances these days, it was guided to the microphone by Janizary Thomas Corcoran. Economist Willard Thorp contributed the part on labor, Lawyer Ben Cohen the part on utilities...