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... speak for seven minutes , but once wound up he couldn't stop . On and on he went , his voice loud and unclear , his words tumbling over one another and losing themselves in their own echoes . Lincoln entered the chamber as he was speaking ...
... speak for seven minutes , but once wound up he couldn't stop . On and on he went , his voice loud and unclear , his words tumbling over one another and losing themselves in their own echoes . Lincoln entered the chamber as he was speaking ...
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... speaking economic considerations were secondary to their desire to maintain the supremacy of their party in national ... speak , the House cloakrooms emptied . In a high tenor voice that whipped through the fusty air of the chamber , he ...
... speaking economic considerations were secondary to their desire to maintain the supremacy of their party in national ... speak , the House cloakrooms emptied . In a high tenor voice that whipped through the fusty air of the chamber , he ...
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... speaking in that languid drawl with which he obliterated his enemies . " I move , " he said , " that he [ Rogers ] be allowed to go on for the rest of the season . " The Senate contingent of the Committee consisted of five Repub- licans ...
... speaking in that languid drawl with which he obliterated his enemies . " I move , " he said , " that he [ Rogers ] be allowed to go on for the rest of the season . " The Senate contingent of the Committee consisted of five Repub- licans ...
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THE VICE PRESIDENT | 3 |
THE RADICALS | 35 |
OF HOPES DEFERRED | 49 |
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