Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoroughgoing Dry in speech and practice. He became famous last year for his amendment to the Second Deficiency bill, appropriating $25,000,000 extra for Prohibition enforcement. Although the amount was reduced the amendment carried...
...speech-on Boston Common yesterday afternoon, L. B. Cohen Jr., '32 president of the Harvard Socialist Club and distributor of "Welcome To MacDonald" circulars, urged labor to elect representatives to the legislature to take the places of those who were the nominees of capitalists...
...very building, a little over a month ago, the leading statesmen of Europe staged that famed and furious diplomatic quarrel, The Hague Reparations ("Sponge cake") Conference (TIME, Aug. 5 to Sept. 9). Queen Wilhelmina rose and began in her gracious contralto to roll the broad Dutch vowels of her Speech from the Throne...
...Churchill had finished and sat down, a scratchy, Churchillesque voice began to speak from somewhere: "In ex pressing my thanks to you for your kind welcome, and to our hosts for the all too flattering terms in which they refer to me . . ." Mr. Churchill flushed, grinned, heard his own speech -which had been sound-recorded without his knowledge...
Such and many other quotations have filled the columns of the Metropolitan newspapers in the recent outbreak over the speech of President Angell before some 2500 students in Woolsey Hall, Thursday night. Perhaps more than any other one thing, it is an example of super-sensitive journalism with its ready eye for the unique detail or in this case the possible accusation...