Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Iowa. The issue was simple in the primaries of Republican Iowa. It was: "Is or is not Iowa angry enough with the Administration to give it a good resounding kick?" Until the polls opened no one was sure. Senator Cummins made a last minute radio speech from Washington declaring that he was doing everything he could for the farmers. Six progressive Senators, Norris, Hornell, Frazier Nye, La Follette, Shipstead, issued a manifesto urging Iowa to turn to their political kinsman, Smith Wildman Brookhart...
...Senate has its traditions. One of them is free speech and another is poker. A great many Senators are extraordinarily hard workers, and of course relaxation is necessary. So poker has become a tradition, sub rosa. Last week the two traditions were brought together on the floor, to the great interest of venerable Senators...
...Butler Wright of the State Department took the visitors on a city ferryboat. Governor's Island fired 21 guns. The municipal fireboat sent eight streams of water high in the air. At the Battery a guard of Marines escorted the party to the City Hall. Mayor Walker made a speech. The Crown Prince made a speech?quite professionally?into the radio microphone?departed for Washington...
President Gertrude Vaile of Denver opened the Conference proper with a vaulting keynote speech. Half a century ago, the emphasis of social work was upon alleviation and correction. "Today the goal is nothing short of an effort to see that every individual becomes the best he can be, and the community the finest and fullest expression of social life that...
...Sociability, which is mechanical, is one of the characteristics of Americans, and they have plenty of supplies of 'hello's,' 'how do you do's,' and 'I enjoyed your speech very much,' which don't mean to them more than prayers mean for so-called Christians before each meal. They talk but they don't mean...