Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, Ohio, 85%; voice quality good, delivery fair, mannerisms poor, poise fair. "Notably inept at speech-making," Senator Taft is marked down nevertheless as a "phenomenon of the politico-radio world." Reason: after his series of 13 radio debates with witty Congressman T. V. Smith, a radio veteran, on New Deal policies early this year, a Gallup Poll totted the score thus: Taft 66%, Smith 34%. Explanation: "He speaks a homely common sense with a sincerity that makes people listen to him anyway...
...Cordell Hull, 84%; voice quality very good, delivery good, mannerisms fair, poise very good. Chief appeal: "A quiet gentlemanliness and an ability to address a radio audience in conversational tones which are at once pleasant and compelling...
...Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, Michigan, 83% ; voice quality and delivery good, mannerisms poor, poise good. Since 1936 (when his voice was "that of one haranguing a mob") he has "given more attention to his radio appearance, anc today he speaks with vigor and force, but without that displeasing quality he once...
...logic," Radio Guide rated Franklin Roosevelt and Robert Taft "excellent,'' the rest "good...
...soon closed tightly around the screw, and the patient was able to chew comfortably with the protruding head. After several months, Dr. Strock cemented a handsome false tooth shell, known as a porcelain jacket crown, on to the head of the screw, and the tooth looked and felt as good as a real...