Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stability has been spoken of. The history of the last century has demonstrated that democratic regimes offered at least as much stability as governmental systems founded on the all-powerfulness of one man, even though that all-powerfulness be explained by genius...
...Order, which is indispensable to all collective organization, has been spoken of. Democracy is precisely the regime that permits societies to progress in order, since it makes progress depend on the general will and on a more and more enlightened will...
Never happier than when he is displaying the flowery diction expected of an honorary degree-holder from Boston's Staley College of the Spoken Word, rich-voiced Governor Curley then arose and intoned: "I bring the greetings of the State of Massachusetts. . . . That master of prose and poetry who has sounded every depth and shoal of human feeling, William Shakespeare, unquestionably anticipated this institution when he penned the line which reads 'How far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world.' " After reviewing the history of Harvard, Democrat Curley...
...Malta Constitution was abolished by His Majesty's Government, Malta was dropped from Responsible Government to the status of a Crown Colony in which the British Governor has the authority of a Dictator. The Italian language, banned by Britain in 1934 from being taught in Malta schools or spoken in Malta law courts, was last week "permanently banned...
...force but through the resurrection-in Jesus Christ-of Europe in general and our Fatherland in particular. . . . During the last few months within Germany's own border the Catholic Church, Pope, Bishops and Priests have been brought in slanderous connection with Bolshevism, and books, periodicals and newspapers have spoken of the brotherhood between Rome and Moscow. Spain has opened the eyes of those who can still...