Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speech. It was before this monument that President Coolidge doffed his hat, shed his overcoat; faced a biting wind, radio transmitters, 150,000 people; orated. His one pronouncement of policy was that the U. S. would not enter the World Court unless the Senate reservations were accepted in toto. He said in part...
...Reaction. President Coolidge's speech took the way of political commonsense. He knew that the Senate, after its World Court broil last January, would have no more to do with international brotherhood, unless its five reservations were accepted verbatim. In September the Geneva Conference added counter-reservations (TIME, Sept. 13) and some friendly World Court Senators became hostile. So, now the situation has come to an impasse: Europe is little inclined to accept the Senate reservations; the Senate and the Administration will not listen to counter-reservations...
...Democratic and European press pointed to President Coolidge's speech as being more fainthearted than wise...
...silk-tented Bal Tabarin room of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. Kiwanians were there assembled last week to celebrate Armistice Day. It was not the one tense moment for the first great political speech of a man's career; neither was the speaker, General John Joseph Pershing, expected to entertain businessmen with anything more than patriotic remarks, dully pronounced...
...they poked into history books to find that he is probably the only U. S. hero-warrior who has not been President or at least a serious candidate for the office.± If Warrior Pershing really has his eye on 1928 (which is doubtful even to his admirers), his speech last week was an effective opening...