Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messrs. Warren & Co. followed the scheme laid down by agile-minded Jimmy Byrnes in the Senate: let the opposition talk its head off, then vote the bill through as is. The House version of the Great Debate sounded hotter than the Senate's -chiefly because of the necessary brevity of the speeches-but actually meant no more. That the vote was in the bag was conclusively demonstrated when wily old Speaker William Brockman Bankhead, Hamlet of the House, took the floor for a passionate defense of the measure: near the finish-post, he always cheers the winner...
...addition to the regular performances last year there was a talk by Cecil B. DeMille, and this year another movie celebrity such as Frank Capra or James Cagney is expected to speak...
Four days before the scheduled talk in the Union. Thomas was arrested for violating a city ordinance involving the question of free speech in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. The University did not withdraw its permission allowing Thomas to speak and he spoke in the Union on the night of October 18, after his trial at Mt. Vernon...
Potocki's talk, the first of a series of Polish culture programs sponsored by the Slavic Circle, is entitled "Poland and the World Crisis." At the present time he is principally concerned with arousing sympathy in this country for Poland in her new fight for liberation...
Methods in a "scientific and humanitarian program" for defense of civilian populations against submarine and air bombers were the topic of a talk by President Karl T. Compton of M. I. T. in the Adams House Upper Common Room last night...