Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When blind Minnesota Senator Thomas David Schall ("it is not eyes that make men") has something on his mind, he must be heard. Last spring (TIME, June 28) he was told by Senator Ashurst, Arizona, that as the years rolled on he would "regret" the speech he was then making (calling his attackers "pettifoggers, blackmailers, skunks"). The Senator from Minnesota proceeded with his speech...
Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, historian at Harvard, does not ap- prove of either of them. Last week, during a speech in Boston, he picked up a copy of Mr. Hughes' book, said...
Significance. The speech of General Hertzog created a sensation because of its tone of loyalty to the Empire. At London Premier Hertzog fulminated so violently against the very word "Empire" that even the King-Emperor began to refer to the "Commonwealth...
...could the speaker be, when one of the ablest Senators from the South was merely the other? The speaker was the head of the English Department of Vanderbilt University ?Dr. Edwin Mims by name. He is the author of a book* which raised a controversy. In his speech last week before the Southern Society in Manhattan, he reiterated his side of that controversy. It is now time, he said, to cease talking about Southern chivalry, hospitality, traditions. . . . The South has used the Civil War to explain too many things...
...hopes of the more liberal element of the Church for such a rapprochement were feelingly expressed to newsgatherers last week by Cardinal Vannutelli, on the eve of his 90th birthday, in earnest quavering speech: "Mussolini is the man chosen by God to direct Italy to her glorious goal. I pray for him daily. . . . Negotiations for the reconciliation of the Church and State are making gratifying headway, and we are confident that a settlement may be reached on a basis of justice to the Holy See." Such well-meant words are little more than wasted breath so long as the potent...