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Whittier "really deserves a place with Walt Whitman among our great American poets," unconvinced readers may still prefer James Russell Lowell's dictum: "If we should attempt to depict the peculiar characteristic of Whittier, we should say that of all poets he most truly deserved the name orator...
...South.") He was one of the first to see and say out loud that the U. S. would never ballyhoo itself out of the depression. In 1930, he tossed aside a speech, prepared for the Investment Bankers Association meeting at New Orleans and drawled out his now famed dictum...
Follows Westcott Dictum...
...country badly, stripped the R. F. C. of most of its psychological assets. Manhattan bankers had rarely looked more worried. Financiers put unofficial observers at the doors of the Federal Reserve Bank to watch the outflow of gold. There was widespread agreement with Bernard Mannes Baruch's dictum before a Senate committee that the U. S. was confronted with a condition "worse than...
...with that of today, we can say that there has developed both the spirit and the method of cooperation in the prevention of war which gives profound hope for the future." It has long been a mystery where President Hoover derived his never-failing optimism. But the above dictum presents a riddle surpassing anything heretofore. If there were much evidence that international feeling had undergone any considerable change in the last twenty years, some hope might reasonably be entertained. But that evidence seems to be the unique possession of the President...