Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brockton, Mass., Ku Klux Klan meeting last month where Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, was making his customary speech for hire against the Roman Catholic Church, somebody threw a bottle. It missed the Senator but hit and cut his police bodyguard...
Candidate Hoover discussed husbandry and its problems in his closing campaign speech, at St. Louis. President Hoover recommended to Congress a farm relief plan, consisting of tariff revisions and the creation of a Federal Farm Board with "adequate working capital" to reorganize marketing, to assist co-operatives handle surplus crops. Later, he opposed the export debenture plan produced by the Senate, whereby exporters of farm produce would receive a bounty equal to one-half the tariff rate on the same commodity (TIME, April...
Four Hoover Points. The keynotes of the speech were...
...calibre, "D" for displacement. The list of categories remains as under Calvin Coolidge: 1) Capital Ships; 2) Aircraft Carriers (both of these already limited under the Washington Conference Treaty); 3) Cruisers; 4) Destroyers; 5) Submarines. With correspondents Mr. Gibson went so far as to indicate, several days after his speech, that the British had not even yet asked for details of the "A. C. D." formula, though they knew that he stood ready to reveal it at any time in confidence...
...Brussels and the two men soon became closest friends. During 1918-19, Mr. Gibson was detailed by the State Department for special and extraordinary duty under Mr. Hoover, then Director General of Relief. So intimate are President and Ambassador today that Mr. Gibson dared, two days after his naval speech last week, to pledge the U. S. to a most vital concession with respect to land armaments in a second blue-bolt speech delivered extemporaneously...