Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next to economy, prosperity, morality and Divine Providence, President Coolidge's favorite speech-making topic is naval disarmament. Last week he did not make a speech, but he despatched to Congress and to Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy a plan of naval disarmament. It was received as the most statesmanly document of his administration. He suggested...
...Section 29, sonorously eloquent, affirms that no power of censorship is granted to interfere with the right of free speech. BUT "no person within the jurisdiction of the United States shall utter any obscene, indecent or profane language" by radio. This would technically bar most Manhattan plays and many an opera...
...Europe was not willing to accept glibly the U. S. scheme of entrance. Early last autumn the Adherent Powers met at Geneva, attached counter-reservations to the U. S. reservations. Several Senators who had voted for the World Court did an about-face. President Coolidge in his Kansas City speech (TIME, Nov. 22) said that, unless the U. S. reservations were accepted in toto, he was through with the World Court...
...Washington, D. C., Senator Caraway of Arkansas opened his morning mail, found therein a check for $10. The sender congratulated Senator Caraway for his "magnificent speech" in behalf of William G. McAdoo, asked that he transmit the $10 to Mr. McAdoo's Presidential campaign managers. The check speedily went back to the sender with the words: "You are barking up the wrong tree." Senator Caraway, as everyone knows, is an enemy of Mr. McAdoo...
...that it suffers the characters to exist within its confines. Of the progress of the story, there is never any forecast but the evident succession of the years, At scattered intervals during these years, the author drops in upon her creatures and describes, always behind the veil of colloquial speech, the effect of their crises upon their emotional natues. And at the and, one must award the palm as heroine to Kate Green by virtue of longest and most substantial portrayal at the hands of the authoress...