Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, spoke Chief Scout Daniel Carter Beard, 77, founder of U. S. Boy Scouts, at the Boy Scout camp near Bear Mountain, N. Y. Among his listeners were Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas, Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut, Barron Collier, August Heckscher, Will H. Hays, Edward F. Albee, William H. ("Big Bill") Edwards, General Robert Lee Bullard, and some 800 Boy Scouts...
...cowboy spoke to the President; the President spoke to the cowboy. Later he asked the cowboy into the Executive Office, where they chatted for some time, presumably about the big roundup which the President is to see next month at Bellefourche. At length the cowboy departed, having secured that none too readily accorded privilege, a personal audience with the President...
Prince Henry, third son of George V, spoke modestly enough at a Royal Academy banquet in London, saying: "Please remember that by profession I am a soldier, and that a soldier's training does not lead along the high road...
...Swedish Houses of Parliament. One of the cleanest and most sanitary cities of the world was greeting its foreign visitors.* In the Concert Hall where the convention proceedings opened, the great organ played for 20 minutes. Then Axel F. Wallenberg, onetime Minister to the U. S. from Sweden, spoke (in English): "I have something to say to the representatives of the United States. . . . Allow me to say a few words as a Swede. In the name of my countrymen I thank you and all the citizens of the wonderful country on the other side of the water most heartily...
...Manhattan, one Thomas McCaffery, 11, earnestly spoke to Magistrate August W. Glatzmeyer in traffic court: "I've come to represent my father. He is a hard working man and he can't take a day off from driving his taxi, because he has to make a living for me and the rest of the kids. But me, I can miss a day at school, because I can make it up. Besides, he got a ticket on Father's Day, and every kid wants to do his bit for his father...