Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heflin: "Mr. President, will the gentleman yield right there? ... So far as I am concerned, I am going to object to the Senator from Arkansas remaining on that committee any longer. He feels called on to try to answer my speech today. ... I do not think he is fair to me and as a Representative of the Democratic Party I repudiate his speech...
Robinson: "... I have heard the Senator from Alabama a dozen times during the last year make what he calls his anti-Catholic speech. I have heard him denounce the Catholic Church and the Pope of Rome and the cardinal and the bishop and the priest and the nun until I am sick and tired of it, as a Democrat...
...preliminary argument all candidates will be expected to prepare a five minute speech on the question. Six men will be selected from the candidates that night to speak in the finals a fortnight later...
Disregarding his attack on Governor Smith and the Catholic Church, one is equally impressed by Senator Heflin's melodramatic threats against the "villain" newspaper correspondents who reported his speeches from the press galleries. It is possible, however, that the reporters regretted the necessity of publishing the words which so plainly signified a lack of tact on the part of the Senator from Alabama, but in the last extremity they can plead that he gave them no cue that his condemnation of Senator Robinson of Arkansas to tar and feathers was made only in "fun." In a speech bristling with denunciations...
Last week, Detroiters introduced another new model. It had no balloon tires, no windshield, no horn. It was a mayor not a motor. It was Mayor John Christian Lodge who won office without benefit of one campaign speech, one political promise, one rooster-boost. Wearing a new grey suit and looking not unlike Henry Ford, Mayor Lodge offered his right hand to all-comers. Policemen gripped so hard that Mayor Lodge, wincing but glad, had to give others his left hand. When subordinate city officials were brought forward for formal introduction, Mayor Lodge called them by their first names...