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1900-1909 -- Don P. Halsey Extols the Virtues of Great Oratory 3 -- Senator Albert J. Beveridge Defends America's Right to Subjugate "Savage" Peoples and Foreign Governments 4 -- Senator George F. Hoar Denounces American "Imperialism" 6 -- Jane Addams Offers an Impassioned Tribute to George Washington on the Anniversary of His Birthday 8 -- Tammany Hall Politician George Washington Plunkitt Justifies "Honest Graft" 11 -- President Theodore Roosevelt Condemns the "Muckrakers" Who Smear and Slander Honest Men 13 -- Reverend Dr. Donald Sage Mackay Addresses the Question "Does God Care?" After an Earthquake Destroys San Francisco 16 -- W. E. B. Du Bois Issues a Call to Arms to His Fellow African Americans in the "Battle for Humanity" 17 -- Booker T. Washington Warns Against Confrontational Actions That May Do More Harm than Good 20 -- Mark Twain Speaks to Misses Tewksbury's School for Girls on Smoking, Drinking, and Lying 21 -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett Calls Attention to the Epidemic of Lynchings and "Mob Murder" in America 22 -- Chief Plenty Coup Confers with His Tribal Council on Achieving Peace Between the Great Tribes of the United States 25 -- Reverend Reverdy Ransom on "White Supremacy" and an Upcoming Boxing Match Between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries 26 -- 1910-1919 -- Anarchist Emma Goldman Derides Patriotism as a "Menace to Liberty" 31 -- Union Activist Rose Schneiderman on the Deaths of 146 Workers in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 32 -- Mrs. D.H. Bishop Offers a Harrowing Eyewitness Account of the Titanic's Last Hours 33 -- Henry Ford Describes the Bonus He Has Provided His Workers and Its Intended Effects on Their Private Lives 34 -- President Woodrow Wilson Requests a Declaration of War Against Germany 37 -- Carrie Chapman Catt Urges the U.S. Congress to Make One "Last, Hard Fight" for Suffrage 39 -- President Woodrow Wilson Enumerates the "Fourteen Points" That Will Ensure World Peace and "Justice to All Peoples and Nationalities" 43 -- Ambassador James W. Gerard Encourages German Americans to Be Loyal to the United States--or Else 46 -- Socialist Leader Eugene V. Debs Defends Himself in Court Against Charges of "Disloyalty" and "Sedition" 47 -- Reverend Dr.Anna Howard Shaw Beseeches Americans to Accept President Wilson's Proposal for a "League of Nations" 51 -- Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Rejects the League and Its "Mongrel Banner" 55 -- New York Governor Alfred E. Smith Assails the "Contemptible" Publishing Tycoon William Randolph Hearst 57 -- 1920-1929 -- Evangelical Preacher Billy Sunday Excoriates Alcohol as "God's Worst Enemy" 61 -- Will Rogers Skewers Both the "Wets" and the "Drys" in the Prohibition Debate 63 -- Attorney Edward Prindeville Demands Imprisonment for Eight Chicago White Sox Players Who Intentionally Lost the 1919 World Series 65 -- Helen Keller Emphatically Endorses Communism and the Russian Revolution 67 -- Margaret Sanger Promotes Birth Control as an "Ethical Necessity for Humanity" 68 -- President Warren G. Harding Marvels at the "Majesty" of Yellowstone National Park 70 -- Black Leader Marcus Garvey Finds Common Ground with the Ku Klux Klan 72 -- Maud Ballington Booth Expresses Her Belief That No Prisoner Is "Beyond Hope" 75 -- Defense Attorney Clarence Darrow Implores the Court to Spare the Lives of Two Young Murderers 76 -- William Jennings Bryan Scoffs at Darwin's Theory of Evolution 79 -- Defense Attorney Dudley Field Malone Argues That Both "Theology and Science" Should Be Taught in Public Schools 81 -- Nicola Sacco, Before His Execution, Restates His Innocence 84 -- Al "Scarface" Capone Bids Farewell to Chicago and Laments Being Unappreciated for Showing Citizens a "Good Time" 85 -- Republican Presidential Candidate Herbert Hoover Predicts the "Abolition of Poverty" in the United States 86 -- 1930-1939 -- Oscar Ameringer Describes Intolerable Suffering Throughout the United States as a Result of the Great Depression 93 -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, on His Ninetieth Birthday, Offers Profound Advice on Life and Death 94 -- Notre Dame President the Reverend Father Charles L. O'Donnell Eulogizes the Legendary Football Coach Knute Rockne 95 -- Walter W. Waters, Leader of the "Bonus Expeditionary Forces," Rallies Americans Against President Herbert Hoover 97 -- Newly Elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt Gives Inspiration and Courage to a Nation Overwhelmed by Poverty and Anxiety 99 -- Joseph Strauss, Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge, Celebrates the Bridge as a Symbol of "New Hopes and New Aspirations" 102 -- Mary McLeod Bethune Commemorates the Sacrifices and Achievements of African American Women Over the Past 100 Years 105 -- Populist Senator Huey P. Long Advances His "Share Our Wealth" Plan to Make "Every Man a King" 107 -- Radio Broadcaster Herb Morrison Reports Live as the Hindenburg Explodes and Crashes to the Ground 110 -- Union Leader John L. Lewis Excoriates Big Business for Its "Brutality and Oppression" Against Organized Labor 112 -- Orson Welles Tries to Assure Terrified Listeners That They Are Not Being Attacked by Martians 114 -- Baseball Great Lou Gehrig, Suffering from a Fatal Disease, Thanks His Fans and Considers Himself the "Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth" 115 -- 1940-1949 -- CBS Newsman Edward R. Murrow Describes Nazi Air Attacks on the City of London 119 -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt Tries to Convince a Skeptical Nation Why It Must Defend the World Against Nazism 120 -- Legendary Composer Duke Ellington Exalts the Artistic, Intellectual, and Spiritual Contributions Made by African Americans 124 -- Famed Pilot Charles Lindbergh Argues That the United States Would Meet with "Defeat and Failure" Against the German Army 126 -- Journalist Dorothy Thompson Imagines the Horror of a World Controlled by Adolf Hitler 130 -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt Requests from Congress a Declaration of War Against Japan 132 -- Nobel Laureate Pearl Buck Contends That to Defeat Fascism Abroad, Americans Must Fight for Equality at Home 134 -- General Dwight D. Eisenhower Drafts a Message of Apology for His Failure at D-Day 138 -- General Eisenhower Issues His "Order of the Day" to the Men Who Will Storm the Beaches of Normandy 138 -- General George S. Patton Tells His Troops That War Is the "Most Magnificent Competition in Which a Human Being Can Indulge" 139 -- President Harry S. Truman Addresses a Nation Grief-Stricken by the Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt 144 -- President Truman Announces That an Atomic Bomb--the Largest Bomb Ever Used in the History of Warfare--Has Been Dropped on Japan 147 -- General Douglas MacArthur Offers Words of Peace After Japan Signs the Official Declaration of Surrender 149 -- J. Robert Oppenheimer, Creator of the Atomic Bomb, Beseeches His Colleagues Not to Forget Morality in Their Pursuit of Science 151 -- Robert H. Jackson Demands a Verdict of Guilty for the Nazi Leaders on Trial at Nuremberg 153 -- Holocaust Survivor Hadassah Rosensaft Describes the Day She Was Liberated from a Nazi Extermination Camp 158 -- Zionist Leader Abba Hillel Silver Implores the United Nations to Authorize the Creation of a Homeland for Jews in Palestine 160 -- Secretary of State George Marshall Announces a Plan to Save War-Ravaged Europe from Descending into "Chaos" 163 -- World-Renowned Performer Paul Robeson Adamantly Defends His Love for the Soviet Union and Its Government 166 -- Major-League Baseball Player Jackie Robinson Appears Before the House Un-American Activities Committee to Comment on Robeson's Remarks 169 -- 1950-1959 -- Senator Joseph McCarthy Launches a "Final, All-Out Battle" Against Communist Sympathizers in the United States 173 -- Senator Margaret Chase Smith Warns Against Those Who Use "Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear [Tactics]" for Political Gain 176 -- Nobel Laureate William Faulkner Expresses His Heartfelt Belief That "Man Will Not Merely Endure: He Will Prevail" 179 -- President Harry S. Truman Defends Sending Troops to Korea and Firing General Douglas MacArthur 180 -- General MacArthur Explains His Actions in the Korean War and Refutes Charges of Being a "Warmonger" 185 -- Democratic Governor Adlai Stevenson Reminds Members of His Party of All That They Have Accomplished in the Past Twenty Years 188 -- Vice Presidential Candidate Richard M. |
