Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ideal equipment hoped for by the group is a two room set-up with the acting going on in one and the recording in the other. In this way the effect of a broadcast will be achieved, for the program will be reproduced by a loud speaker and defects in it may be corrected before the actual recording takes place...
...scholarly, war-impoverished Tennessee slaveholder, stringy, hard-jawed Hatton Sumners, 63, is a self-taught authority on law and history (specialty: the 13th Century). When he rises to speak, the House hushes. On an automobile ride in 1937 with the late Majority Leader Joe Robinson, Speaker Bankhead, Majority Leader Sam Rayburn and Senator Ashurst, he announced the first serious opposition to President Roosevelt's plan for altering the Supreme Court by saying: "Boys, here's where I cash in." He would not receive the Court bill in his committee and forced the Senate to consider it first...
...Crown's prerogatives, accepted the offer. Up from the huge square went more roars of approval. As Empire Builder Mussolini moved forward to speak, the thousands below called for more of the same. Up to the balcony came cries of "On to Paris!" "Tunisia!" "Down with France!" Speaker Mussolini replied with what his supporters took to be a pointed acknowledgment that Italy and France have a few matters to settle between them...
Taxpayers of Westchester County, N. Y. held a mass meeting last week in White Plains to protest the cost of their State Government. One speaker suggested that the Republican Legislature adopt a greatly reduced budget, let Democratic Governor Lehman veto it if he dare. State Senator Pliny W. Williamson (Republican) expostulated: "You wouldn't want the courts and State institutions and offices closed for lack of funds, would...
...name of Senator Robert Rice Reynolds of North Carolina has been added to that of Senator Tydings as a speaker at the conference banquet on Friday night, the committee in charge announced yesterday...