Word: spokenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Roosevelt . . . capped his record of action by meeting squarely and unequivocally . . . the vital and controversial issues on which the isolationists kept us out of the League of Nations. . . . Governor Dewey . . . has spoken for a strong international security organization, but in each speech has so worded his commitment that both isolationists and internationalists could find comfort in what he said...
...bearded ex-pacifist philosopher and mainstay of the BBC "Brains Trust" (British equivalent of In formation Please), was invited to speak at Cambridge University on international affairs, was greeted with tear and smoke bombs by student rioters who aimed to prevent him from speaking. Reason: in 1933, Joad had spoken at Cambridge in defense of the Oxford Union's once-famed resolution-"Not to Fight for King and Country...
This will be the first time that Miss Smith has spoken on a socially significant topic in the city in which her book was banned. Her first appearance here was her address to the Boston Book Fair last night. Life Magazine is covering her trip, but College officials have refused to permit pictures to be taken on University property...
...change in the military leadership, and will make the construction of the peace a nonpartisan matter;* the New Deal means confusion, bungling, bickering. And, once again, one of his most effective lines: "On Jan. 20 of next year we shall restore honesty to our government, so that its spoken word can again be trusted...
...Addressing a farm gathering in one Provincial election, he jumped on a manure spreader, whooped: "This is the first time I have ever spoken from a Conservative platform." Answered a man in the crowd: "Throw her into high, Mitch. She's got the biggest load on now she'll ever carry...