Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cool, unruffled speaker with a shy, dry wit and an impressive talent for fashioning an air-tight argument, Jessup was a welcome change from the windy speechifying of ailing Delegate Warren Austin and the arm-pumping forensics of Texas' minor statesman, Tom Connally. He soon began to carry more & more of the U.S. load: the debates over Palestine and Indonesia, the showdown last fall on Berlin. After Lawyer Jessup had demolished Lawyer Vishinsky in the Berlin debate with a damning, well-documented indictment of Russian policy (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948), one Western European delegate commented admiringly: "That...
Richard G. Eberhart has been selected as the next speaker under the Morris Gray Poetry Foundation, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, disclosed yesterday...
Mere Puppets. The rebels insisted on a showdown. They picked Minnesota's 236-lb. Roy Dunn, who calls himself "a country politician," to oppose Scott. For 4½ bitter hours, speaker after speaker rose to fling recriminations at Dewey and Scott. West Virginia's Walter Hallanan opened up for the prosecution: "An election was lost because of stupidity, arrogance and cockiness . . . We've been mere puppets...
...flash, the Hon. William Alexander Bustamante-Minister of Communications, pistol-toting boss of "Bustamante's Industrial Trade Unions," and leader of the majority Labor Party-was on his feet, his white mane bristling. "I appeal to Mr. Speaker," he roared, "for the withdrawal of the word twist. I refuse to allow anyone to make an imputation against my irreproachable character...
...Goodbye." The speaker mumbled a ruling. "Mr. Speaker has ruled that the word is in order," snapped Bustamante, glowering at the member from East Westmoreland. "There is only one twisted person here. You. Goodbye." As he strode from the chamber, he called on his party's eight representatives to follow him. All except Education Minister Jehoida Augustus McPherson...