Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report went far and wide through the press. Mr. Smith Wildman Brookhart, newly nominated for the Senate in Iowa (TIME, June 14), had made a speech to the Iowa Federation of Labor at Mason City. He was reported as having advocated...
...Vice President and the Senator from Alabama would substitute for free speech here a gag rule that would be more intolerable than any tyranny ever manifested in any legislative body on this earth...
...impassioned public speech at Manchester, Mr. George declared: "It is a wretched business and it looks as if they had made up their minds...
...referendum (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.) which-if 20,000,000 votes are cast-will confirm and legalize the Republic's seizures of property. In the Prussian Landtag, both Communists and Fascists grunted and howled when Herr Hőpker-Aschoff, Prussian Minister of Finance, attempted an "impartial" speech as follows: "While I am personally against confiscation, I must observe that it is not fair to call the possibly forthcoming confiscatory vote of the now sovereign people an act of 'robbery...
...everywhere pricked up their ears, hearing fond echoes in the very name. The inn, of an old English design, facing the village green, was not a part of the Amherst college plant, but Amherst alumni thronged to join the celebration. President George Daniel Olds of Amherst made a speech. President Harry A. Garfield had come over from Williams College and he made another speech. Mr. George A. Plimpton, senior trustee of Amherst, exhibited his remarkable collection of Amherst memorabilia-portraits, autographs, prints, cartoons, maps and even original broadsides of the declarations of war between George II and Louis...