Word: addressing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...voice which would have made even the Gettysburg Address sound like the chant of a tobacco auctioneer, the clerk of the U.S. Senate droned out the message which President Truman and his aides had worked over so long and earnestly. Prosaically spoken, the words dealt with a passionately debated issue: How can a nation defend its freedom against those who would claim freedom's privileges in order to destroy freedom...
...broadcast to the nation Leopold said: "I address a solemn appeal to you for concord and I implore you not to be led astray in sterile and vain struggles . . . The King is a symbol of the continuity of the nation. He is a counselor placed above party struggles, respectful of the decisions of the majority, attentive to the opinions of the minority. Whatever additional tests the future can impose on me, this role will be mine...
JUNE 9, 1930, a story which discussed Russia's economic rise and its dealings with U.S. businessmen. Said TIME: "Exactly where Stalin stands on the question of overthrowing the U.S. Government appears from what he said last year in an address to the American Section of the Third International. 'I consider that the Communist Party of the U.S.A. is one of the few Communist Parties to which history has confided decisive tasks from the viewpoint of the world revolutionary movement. The revolutionary crisis ... in the United States . . . is near . . . The American Communist Party must be ready to meet...
...A.M.A.'s principal concern was socialized medicine. Instead of letting its incoming president, Louisville's Dr. Elmer Lee Henderson (elected at last year's convention), deliver his inaugural address to a few hundred delegates, the A.M.A. spent $16,500 to broadcast his speech over two national networks. Said Dr. Henderson: "Our affairs are no longer just medical affairs. They have become of compelling concern to all the people...
...found his homeland in effect a Russian colony. When Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky was proclaimed the new commander of the Polish army (TIME, Nov. 21), Poles at first could not believe the news, thought it a joke. Later, when Rokossovsky tried to address a crowd of workers in rusty, stumbling Polish, a sarcastic voice cried: "Don't be bashful, speak Russian. We are all Russians here...