Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...spoke the house of Labor was divided and subdivided. The convention of C. I. 0 which he addressed was divided by 1,400 miles and a world of bitterness from the convention of the A. F. of L. in New Orleans. C. I. O. was itself divided in a fight over Communist leaders, A. F.of L. similarly split in a fight over racketeers. And the words were hardly out of Sidney Hillman's mouth when members of Congress, irked by the still unsettled strike at the Vultee Aircraft plant (TIME, Nov. 25), began to denounce "strikes against the Government...
Many another orator followed: teacherish Thomas Kennedy; earnest Philip Murray; tough-minded Van A. Bittner; Sidney Hillman. Had Hillman chosen to reply to Lewis with equal bitterness, the fat might have been in the fire. Instead he spoke earnestly and reasonably for unity. Only grudgingly did Lewis shake Hillman's proffered hand after that generous speech...
Britain's institutions have been put to their most searching test in the past month by intensified bombings and tightened counter-blockade. Responsible editors and statesmen alike spoke out with stark frankness, and what they spoke was not altogether cheering...
After the King the Prime Minister spoke. He was confident and proud, but grimly so. His peroration, usual repository of highest rhetoric and hope, held forth cheer only in the distant future and only if distant friends gave great help...
...years was managing editor of his father's Japan Advertiser until it was more or less forcibly bought out with German money last month, arrived in San Francisco. For the first time in many years - since he knew he was not going back to Japan - he spoke with neither official nor self-imposed censorship...