Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another voice is often confused by loudspeaker addicts for that of Mr. McNamee. The voice is Phillips Carlin's and it is this very similarity that prompts WEAF to assign them together. One broadcaster cannot talk ceaselessly; when he is resting it is less confusing to have a substitute voice of close resemblance. Mr. Carlin was a boyhood orator in Manhattan public schools. He entered the silk business. He went to war. He joined WEAF as an announcer and is now manager of the Manhattan key station...
...gold braid will probably fool the police into letting it go as polite comedy. Four Walls, believes the hero (who is a product of East Side puddles), do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage. He is a unique gangster, in that even a prison term cannot shake him from his smoky torch of philosophy. When it comes to a showdown and a persistent woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back to gaol for murder," he stoically awaits her vengeance and marches off with the detective, scornful of a freedom that might have been...
...Boston, Buffalo, Trenton and Newark; will get current from hydro-electric establishments at Niagara Falls, at Conowingo (now building by Philadelphia Electric) and on the St. Lawrence River near Ogdensburg, N. Y. (planned by General Electric). Although physical properties of these companies will be as one, their financial fabric cannot be closely knit under present interpretations of anti-trust laws. Anticipating that Congress will discuss such power mergers, interested companies are putting into motion a vast machinery to explain to Congress and to the voters the powerman's attitude...
There began then an uproar in the U. S. press such as can scarcely be imagined in these days when even the finest flower of the clergy cannot presume to the importance which then belonged to Henry Ward Beecher. The parishioners of Plymouth Church supported their leader, who before a court met specific charges of adultery with a stupid sarcasm. Finally after 112 days of trial, Mr. Beecher's jury disagreed and he was allowed to go free. There was, however, little disagreement in the minds of the public. For the name of the greatest preacher since St. Paul...
...Little good will ever come out of the fantastic schemes of wholesale enthusiasms," said Bishop Slattery. "We cannot be lead into improving our lines along with a throng of fellowmen, and radical plans for overturning existing life at one, blow will never succeed...