Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party also was Ronald Tree, M.P., who served him as coach, buffer and expert on U. S. psychology. Ronald Tree is the Chicago-born grandson of Marshall Field. Thus guided, Anthony Eden endeared himself to street crowds, got along well with reporters. At the start of his speech at the Waldorf-Astoria, he said: ". . . This visit of mine . . . has no political significance whatever. It is not official, my visit: it isn't even semi-official or even a sixteenth-part official. It is a visit of friendship...
Henry III. One autumn evening in 1932 when Candidate Franklin Roosevelt was scheduled to make his ''farm speech" in Topeka, Kans., one of Des Moines, Iowa's leading citizens had dinner with a group of friends. At the dinner Henry Wallace, the shockheaded editor of Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead, raised his fingers, ticked off one by one the things he would say if he were making a farm speech. When guests and host repaired to hear the candidate. Franklin Roosevelt raised his hand, ticked off practically the same things. Henry Wallace broke...
Some idea of the new pact's domestic popularity was given by the large number of prominent French politicians who went to hear a speech given in Paris the night of the signing by Alfred Duff Cooper, former British First Lord of the Admiralty. Warned Mr. Duff Cooper, who resigned because he could not "stomach" the Munich Pact: "War cannot be avoided by perpetual concessions...
...less important than the Premier's defense was a long speech by Paul Reynaud, Finance Minister, author of the recent unpopular series of decrees reducing governmental expenses (by cutting public works appropriations and War veterans' pensions) and increasing income taxation. Claiming that France had already benefited by his laws, he pointed out that as a result of the rise in the value of Government bonds, a gain of $352,420,000 had accrued to government bondholders. This showed increased confidence in French finances which was also reflected in the fact that in five weeks Finance Minister Reynaud...
...speech at Bradford, President of the Board of Education Earl De La Warr (pronounced "Delaware") despaired of ever appeasing the dictators: "There is a growing feeling that there is nothing we can do to satisfy them, that friendly words and friendly actions are mistaken for cowardice, and that only armaments can speak effectively...