Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Highlights. Mr. Vare was placed on the stand and he admitted that besides his contribution of $71,000 to his campaign he had signed a note for $100,000 to help campaign finances. Mayor Kline of Pittsburgh was questioned about a speech he was alleged to have made to city employes declaring that if they did not vote for Pepper they would be separated from the city payroll. This he vehemently denied. Colonel Eric Fisher Wood, Chairman of the Pepper Committee, admitted that a letter favoring Pepper had been published by his committee which purported to be signed by William...
Though the government remained firm in its determination to jam through a suspension of the Seven Hours Act, the Labor party announced its irreconcilable opposition. Former Laborite-Premier Macdonald declared: "The Premier's speech was most disastrous,... will harden the miners into adamant resistance." Secretary "Emperor" Cook of the Miners' Federation apostrophized Premier Baldwin in a public speech: "You say, Mr. Baldwin, that you have no desire to lower the miners' standard of living. Baldwin...
...There was nothing new in my Mason City speech. It was the formal speech on co-operatives I have been making for years at farm and labor gatherings. What I advocated was that 5% would be the proper limit of return on co-operative enterprises. Nothing was said about commercial business...
...interest of farm relief legislation. Availing himself of the privilege of a former Senator, he went into the Senate Chamber, was cordially greeted. He got to talking in one corner with Senators Walsh, Caraway, and Jones (of New Mexico), all Democrats, while Senator Kendrick of Wyoming was making a speech. Something very amusing must have passed among the four, for Senator Caraway poked Mr. Brookhart in the ribs and they all burst out laughing. Mr. Dawes rapped for order...
Some 10,000,000 Britishers heard her sing over the radio, heard the little speech. Some 3,000 paid trebled prices to get into the theatre. Important correspondents, critics, wrote columns on her "brilliant farewell" on the same stage where she had made "triumphant début" 38 years before. Melba, happy, read their stories, sniffed a little at the "triumphant début," recalled her own version...