Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charged--correctly in our opinion--that the Republican Party was controlled by big business which has corrupted the government for the benefit of the favored few. The last Democratic president, who was elected in 1916 on the slogan. "He kept us out of the war" admitted in a speech at St. Louis, September, 1919, that a combination of manufacturers and big business men control the destinies of this nation. What foundation is there then for a belief that, should the Democratic Party be put into power, a Party which has now among its active supporters, John J. Raskob...
...Safeguarding." Keenest disappointment was voiced by many Conservatives that the Prime Minister's speech did not announce as an issue "Safeguarding," or in U. S. parlance "Protective Tariff...
Significance. On the whole Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's platform speech was negative and uninspiring, but admirably and typically Conservative. It was the speech of a warmly beloved British leader whose personal hobby is keeping pigs, and who consistently manages to "muddle through...
When newspapers containing accounts of the Prime Minister's speech reached Bewdley, his birthplace, a "Stability Baldwin" rally was held by the Venerable Guild of Bewdley Clay Pipe Makers. While guildsmen puffed their long-stemmed clay pipes, a onetime Mayor of Bewdley, Joseph ("Fiery Joe") Oakes, declaimed the speech entire, only stopping now and then to puff, at a pipe, which he said, "Was first smoked by Stanley Baldwin himself, when he was last among...
...took the contract that was offered to him and went south to training camp with the "New Yorks." His teammates kidded him because they thought he was fresh; Elmer, puzzled and proud, started to leave the club. But the boys knew that Elmer wanted to make a speech over the radio so they handed him an electric heater and told him to go ahead and to say something nice to Coolidge who was listening in. That made it all right with Elmer...