Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to study New York's budget, he said, and agricultural relief would be a first consideration of his régime. He spoke then, probably, as a conscientious executive with an eye only to duty...
Surrounded by intimates in the chamber music room of Carnegie Hall, Governor Smith waited for the last (as he had thought) Hoover hour to pass. Then he spoke his final words to "my radio audience." It was perhaps the best speech of his whole campaign; a review of his own executive record, a call to civic duty, and thanks to all who had helped him in his "long, hard job." His final attack was: "The American people will never stand for a dictator any more than they are today satisfied with a policy of silence." His final appeal...
...Republican candidate takes the credit for everything that has happened in this country that is any good to anybody. . . . Why, he even spoke about the increased number of children in the public schools. The Republican Party was not responsible for that. Thanks be to God, everybody had a hand in doing that. In my time I did my share...
Last week Kemal spoke less gargantuanly. First he opened Parliament. Then sonorously he recalled the triumphs of his regime-Sultan overthrown. Republic proclaimed, Calif overthrown, the Church disestablished, polygamy abolished, the fez abolished, women unveiled, and a new Capital built at ancient Angora. Finally the President reported progress in his incessant strivings to "Westernize Turkey." Proudly he declared that 12,000 teachers are now instructing Turks how to write and read their language in Occidental ABC's, though with the same phonetics as of yore...
Point was undeniably given Dr. Klein's prophecies by the occasion which prompted them. He spoke on the eve of the most important day the rubber industry has seen in six years. Fortunately, the day gave happy instead of dismal point to Dr. Klein's vision of a rubberless world. For on Nov. 1, the six-year British experiment in restricting export of rubber from Malaya came to an abrupt and official...