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Political speechmaking is a new avocation for Mrs. Gann. Topeka, Omaha and Chicago have heard her. Women turn out to see "the girl who put Alice Longworth in her place." In substance her addresses wave the U. S. flag, laud President Hoover, belittle the Depression and exude good Republican cheer. She returns to Washington to encourage national headquarters with reports that women everywhere are enthusiastic about a Hoover-Curtis ticket this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Second Lady | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Hyde Park, in London, is the favorite spot for any man with a Grievance. Here he can talk his head off on any subject from evolution to revolution, to an audience which comes to cheer or boo him, then goes home rejoicing over the free entertainment, to think no more of it. There is no disturbance; the policemen present are never more than spectators; while the orator exhausts in empty words whatever wrath might be turned into action against society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMON ORATORY | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...none of these occasions compared with a demonstration last week when Governor Murray shot across the Red River bridge he had fought for last summer and led a motorcade of 300 cars back to his Texas birthplace. Along the 40-mi. route to Collinsville, Texas farmers turned out to cheer him in the rain. Col. William Easterwood came from Dallas to Collinsville to introduce him to a huge crowd as "our next President." About the streets "Murray-For-President" banners flapped in the drizzle. An Oklahoma band played "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Bread, Butter, Bacon, Beans | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...Seven only Germany spoke. Cheer on cheer greeted German Chief Delegate Chancellor Brüning when he made the initial German proposals in general terms. Last week dead silence greeted the presentation of Germany's specific proposals by the German Ambassador to Turkey, Rudolf Nadolny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reviving Chivalry | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...your people upon earth." Together they organized an elaborate ritual dance. All the people acted out Black Elk's vision in detail. After the dance everybody, even the horses, felt better. Black Elk lost his fear, taught his people more dances, one comic one with heyokas (clowns) to cheer the people up. Suddenly power came to him to cure the sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heavenly Blues | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

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