Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years, New York Communists have swarmed into A. L. P. Last week they were told to buzz out. A big party meeting was called to blast Stalinism out of A. L, P. ranks. Speaker after speaker denounced the Soviet. Then the A. L. P. men melted together all the high-Fahrenheit words they could find, forged a white-hot resolution that seared the "red and brown dictatorships" for "their shameless, hypocritical acts," their "brazen conduct," finally branded their U. S. apologists as "antiDemocratic, anti-humanitarian, antilabor, and the blind servants of the Russian international policy...
Lies and Laurels. The Polish victory came first on Speaker Hitler's list, accompanied by three bare-faced lies. Lie No. 1: "A state of no less than 36,000,000 inhabitants took up arms against us. Their arms were far-reaching, and their confidence in their ability to crush Germany knew no bounds." Lie No. 2: In spite of the "violations and insults which Germany and her armed forces had to put up with from these military dilettantes," the First Soldier of the Reich claimed that he "endeavored to restrict aerial warfare to objectives of so-called military...
...unexpectedly announced that the grave political question of all-India federation, which virtually all shades of Indian opinion had opposed for different reasons, would be shelved for the duration of the war that the Indian members rose and cheered the Viceroy with such zeal that the Assembly's speaker had to hammer his desk thrice to restore order...
...Annie J. Cannon, the University's famous woman astronomer, will be speaker at the opening general meeting tonight at the Observatory at 8:15 o'clock. She will discuss her recent tour of the observatories of the western United States...
Just behind and to his left was Cordell Hull. In semicircle before him sat Vice President Garner, fresh from Texas; Speaker Bankhead of the House; "Dear Alben" Barkley and the President's actual captain in the Senate, Jimmy Byrnes; Republican Floor Leaders McNary (Senate) and Joe Martin (House); G. O. P.'s Alf Landon, and his 1936 running mate, flattered Frank Knox of Chicago. To them Franklin Roosevelt forecast a long and widening war, hammered home that the longer the war, the greater the danger to the U. S., hence the U. S. should try to shorten...