Word: speech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman (Mon. 4 p.m., CBS). Speech on U.N. anniversary program...
Said Langer: "I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to sit while making my speech." There was no objection, and he sat. He crossed his legs, tilted back in his chair, laughed at his own attempts at wit, providing a spectacle without parallel in senatorial history. It was a shabby show...
...looked startled at the first manifestation of democracy, U.S. style; photographers were shouting to the President: "Bring Mr. Nehru over here." The President willingly obliged. But Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, regained his smile as Harry Truman welcomed him to the U.S. The President had a pleasant little speech ready: ". . . Destiny ruled that our country should have been discovered in the search for a new route to yours...
...which the men were happiest alone with "a gin cocktail," their feet up on the backs of chairs, talking business, business, business, and spitting, spitting, spitting, while the women sat in a room apart and tittled and tattled by the hour. She made notes of their crude, fantastic speech, little suspecting that age and custom would lend much of it such a patina that such a horrendous phrase as "go the whole hog" would be used, in 1949, by a descendant of the Duke of Marlborough, addressing the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons...
...State of the Union speech last January, President Truman said, "The people have a right to expect that the Congress and the President will work in the closest cooperation with one objective--the welfare of the people of this nation as a whole...