Word: speech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey, highball in hand, was all smiles as he circulated among the distinguished Republicans gathered at. Washington's Mayflower Hotel for the annual Lincoln Day dinner. The rumored boycott of his speech had failed to materialize, and there were no outward signs of the resentment some Republicans feel toward their losing candidate...
...applause was less than deafening. House Minority Leader Joe Martin pronounced it "a good, fighting, constructive speech." Snorted Michigan's Representative Paul Shafer: "The Republican Party's No. 1 ghost has walked again." Ohio's Senator John Bricker, who was Dewey's running mate in 1944, concluded: "The party's going to be all right. All dinners help...
Even that change did not satisfy Opposition Delegate Moises Lebensohn. In a bristling speech which Convention President Domingo A. Mercante did not try to stop, he denounced the plan to bring Perón's portrait into the chamber. "Neither in France, Great Britain nor the U.S. has it ever occurred to anybody to place a portrait of the chief of state in the halls of parliament," he shouted...
After his speech there were questions from the floor. One little boy from Twickenham confessed that he had come only because he thought that the union was going to give children the right to have drivers' licenses. Then a boy wearing an Eton-type jacket got up and said: "Sir, if your union does away with corporal punishment, but continues to allow 'lines' [e.g., 100 from Virgil, in a fair round hand], all I can say is that I'd rather have the cane." Copping assured the boy that children should be able to abolish anything...
...heroine was praised by Housemother Henrietta Sebring in a speech at dinner last night...