Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...filibusterers were crude. Instead of reading Shakespeare or Byron, they had the clerk read yesterday's journal. Senator Cameron plodded through a document on copper mining, of which he could not pronounce some of the words. Senator Moses, protectionist, read a four-year-old low tariff speech of Senator Underwood. Senator Blease mouthed the Constitution of South Carolina and described the life and death of Jefferson Davis. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania mumbled election returns from his state, said he hoped to reach Georgia by dawn. A correspondent in the press gallery whispered: "Poor fellow, Reed would stand...
...thugs and corruptionists of Pennsylvania and let them say to him that he is the Knight of the Closed and Corrupt Ballot Box. . . ." It was one minute before noon and the gavel of Vice President Dawes rapped sharply. "Oh, it's a shame to spoil a good speech like this," said Mr. Harrison. By the look in his beady-eyes, the Vice President had something curt to say. He said it: "The Chair regards the results of the present legislative session as primarily due to the defective rules of the Senate. . . . This is the only great parliamentary body...
...charges against Mr. Daugherty will be dropped. He was so moved that he made a speech thanking everybody, broke down and wept. He, 67, blind in one eye, prepared to leave for Washington Court House, Ohio, to visit his 90-year-old mother and "make a living at law practice...
...What Christian Statesmen are in the pay of Jewish financiers?" Recently Herr Hugo Graefe, potent German landholder, propounded this question in a campaign speech and answered it himself: "My friends, I will tell you one Christian the Jews have bought! Our Foreign Minister [Dr. Gustav Stresemann] has a villa and a castle given him as bribes by Jewish bankers to reveal State secrets and betray the Fatherland...
...Trades Union Hall, Moscow, a huge blood-red disc above the stage, bearing the Hammer and Sickle, emblems of Soviet Russia, was hung. A vast crowd surged- peasants in blouses, urban workers in tight, shoddy store clothes. They had come to hear the first public speech in four months by Russia's greatest orator, famed Leon Trotzky. All knew that M. Trotzky had been silent perforce, following the crushing of his section of the Communist party by Dictator Josef Stalin (TIME, Oct. 25). When Comrade Trotzky slipped upon the stage last week, pale, wiry, magnetic, there was stamping, applause...