Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried do draw him out on the campaigns. "In a Berry big speech a candidates began, "The question is Tobey or not Tobin'. One of the audience shouted back, 'Lemke out of here. Van Nuys is as bad as another.' The speaker yelled, "I Sawyer first and if you don't Pepper up I'll Clark you on the Crump...
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (Wed. 4:20 p. m. NBC-Blue, CBS, MBS), in his first radio speech since the signing of the Munich Pact, addresses London's annual Lord Mayor's banquet...
...When Governor Herbert Lehman spoke from Albany over Station WOR (Newark), Announcer Richard Brooks stood by, slipped murmured interpolations into the microphone. As though the Governor were talking some foreign language the listeners could not understand. Announcer Brooks used intervals of applause to repeat and interpret sections of the speech. Not only did he report a sip of water the speaker took, but he also declared repeatedly that his candidate had scored heavily on Republican Opponent Thomas E. Dewey. Listeners capable of understanding the speech without translation protested. Others kicked about the announcer's editorializing. The Brooks murmuring...
...Because his radio style was criticized by Republican Herbert C. Hoover, who himself is no great radiorator, Republican Thomas E. Dewey goes to New York University's Speech Teacher Richard C. Rorden to brush up his microphone technique, reported "Daily Washington Merry-go-Round's" Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen. A baritone before he was a politician, Candidate Dewey is generally regarded as a professionally polished, dramatic broadcaster...
This statement was omitted from the printed copies of the speech distributed after the rally...