Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked the Court to read current Communist references to "revolution" not "in the light of prophecy" but as active, ominous, highly contemporary. Joe Strecker's failure to pay further Communist dues was no defense, argued Mr. Jackson. He urged Constitutional liberty of thought and speech for citizens only. Said he: "We don't have to confer upon the guest all the privileges of the household...
Three weeks ago the Foreign Minister ended a long Chamber of Deputies debate on foreign policy by half-heartedly reading a strong anti-appeasement speech written for him. M. Daladier, on the other hand, thrilled the Chamber by an extemporaneous talk in which he declared that France would fight rather than satisfy Benito Mussolini's demands for French territory...
...Province of Quebec harbors one of the most antidemocratic, anti-liberal governments in North America. Having passed laws regulating if not prohibiting free speech, a free press and free assembly, the reigning Union Nationale Party has long been friendly to a frankly Fascist movement...
...discursive orbit, touching on poetry, music, drama, death, taxes, fur coats, etc., The Circle has got much of its bounce from bright topical lyrics sung by the Foursome, and from such staged and unstaged effects as: 1) Colman ending a discussion of injustice by reading Socrates' speech to his judges; 2) Gary Grant explaining interruptions for station identification by chanting the Federal radio law with Gregorian solemnity; 3) Madcap Carole warmly arguing that women, by simply being practical, could easily run the world without...
...ever lived, voluntarily submitted to death at the hands of an imperfect government rather than save his life by breaking the laws which had been established by consent." Called the same day to the Chancellorship of the Fascist-threatened Republic, he draws up a sound economic program, a speech to men of good will...