Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paul Howard Douglas has spent almost half his 47 years teaching political economy and sociology at the University oi Chicago. Politics has long been his avocation. In 1932 he urged all non-conservatives to vote for Norman Thomas. Last year he was the principal speaker at an anti-Nazi mass meeting...
...From Chile over the Andes to Argentina the President last week shifted Ambassador Norman Armour, 51, famed as the State Department's smoothest French-speaker, whose wife is a Russian princess. To be Government Secretary for the Virgin Islands he named Robert Morss Lovett, 68, distinguished left-wing belles-lettrist, Emeritus Professor of English of the University of Chicago, persistent civil libertarian...
...flayed Elliott for a damnable dastard. One by one, Democratic colleagues of Alfred Elliott left their seats near him. Had he pressed for a vote, Bud Gearhart could doubtless have caused Democrat Elliott to be the first Representative formally censured (called to the well for a wigging by the Speaker) since Tom Blanton of Texas in 1921, who wangled into the Record, in an extension of remarks, a string of obscenities so vile that they had to be expunged from the permanent Record, torn out of the Congressional Library's temporary copy...
...Poll last week published results of a check on radio listeners who tuned in Bob Taft's debates with pro-New Deal Congressman-Professor T. V. Smith of Illinois. The tally as to which had better arguments: Taft 66%, Smith 34%. Since Bob Taft is a notably inept speaker, and Representative Smith a notably skilled one, the judgment was as much a comment on the New Deal's unpopularity as on the junior Senator from Ohio...
...Smart Speaker Hitler twisted history to suit his argument...