Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Connally of Texas. He has a sharp tongue and uses it to tickle Republicans between the floating ribs. The thin little fellow with crutches-sharp face, dandy hair-is Upshaw, of course, the champion of prohibition. The Anti-Saloon League gives him $100 for every Dry speech he makes. See that elderly man, with a sort of hard-shell face? That is Snell, chairman of the Rules Committee. He is a red flag to the radicals. They think he is the special representative of the interests. Over there is Martin Madden, who has the difficult job of chairman...
...custom in Congress that a new member shall for a time shrink against the crannied wall, and then later, being seasoned in the Congressional climate, he may open the flowers of his rhetoric. So the custom of the maiden speech has arisen, and last week one of the three ladies of the House, elected more than a year ago and present in Congress since last December, spoke forth in formal words for the first time?and her first words were a reproach. She was Mrs. Julius (Florence) Kahn, whose late husband was one of the military experts of the House...
...what act of Moses did Mrs. Kahn aptly refer in her maiden speech...
Labor leaders like J. H. Thomas, M. P., and Rennie Smith, M. P., who visited Harvard last fall, lay the blame, however, on maladministration by the operators. In his speech here Mr. Smith said, "The great problem in the mining industry is that there are so many small, privately owned companies with conflicting interests. They are badly managed and their methods are wasteful. The remedy is the reorganization of the entire industry, establishing a national system not handicapped by the petty interests of small owners...
Outside the Senate there have been and are other leaders trying to formulate the terms of leadership. Such is Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland. His speech last week before the Boston City Club gave his idea...