Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Whitney's Speech...
Fight On. At Washington Senator Smoot of Utah (Republican) launched the Administration's fight for ratification of the U. S.-Italian Debt Settlement, in a speech closely paralleling that made at Philadelphia by Secretary Mellon. He appealed for Senate ratification on the grounds that "Italy is one of our best customers." He scotched any expectation that France will get as lenient terms: "There is no comparison between the two debts, and I want to assure the Senators now personally that no such settlement will ever be made with France as has been made with Italy." Simultaneously with Mr. MelIon...
...knows the political ropes well, having been twice a Congressman and twice a presidential elector. As a Harvard man with an added background of post graduate work at Paris, Berlin and Gottingen, he is no blundering shirtsleeved unsophisticate. Therefore considerable interest was aroused by a rumor that his speech to the press was made at the direct instigation of the President...
...spake keen Mr. Walsh of Montana; prodded the three Senators lustily for daring to imply that the business men of the Rocky Mountain states did not know what was good for them. At last, with 26 minutes left, Senator Gooding of Idaho rose for the final speech. Said...
...hear the jibe that "he strangled the Locarno peace dove with his own hands."* Cheerlessly Sir Austen sought his home. Two days' rest were vouchsafed to him. He slept, thumbed the recently published Intimate Papers of Colonel House for relaxation, and drafted with a vitriolic pen his "speech of accounting" to the House of Commons...