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...stunt, the Eagle put him on the air (with his head in a photographer's vise so he would not stray from the imperfect microphone) in 1922. A year later he was current-eventing steadily over WEAF. His fan mail included letters from happy housewives: at last they had an easily assimilated news and opinion source with which to confront their cocksure husbands. "Please tell me," they begged, "is he right, or are you?" Kaltenborn is certain that radio began the political education of women...
...business of ordinary life, to fill the routines of plowing and planting and the humdrum tasks of every day with a spirit that will make them conscious efforts to create a better destiny, the ideas must result in programs, and the programs must be fulfilled by living, sweating, striving, imperfect and hopeful people. The ideas and ideals strong enough to rebuild the old world and remake the new cannot be the special province of planners and experts. They must be general enough to cross frontiers and local enough to give meaning to the village carpenter's place...
Claiming that records made by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under his direction were imperfect, goateed British Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham sued Columbia Recording Corp. for libel, estimating damage to his reputation...
...years when the men who gave our nation its character and its direction were men who were keenly aware that they were sons of God. . . . Our political institutions and our foreign policies were then moulded by that fact. To be sure, what our nation did was, at best, imperfect and was diluted by much hypocrisy and materialism. But the churches had driven basic Christian principles into the consciousness of a sufficient number of persons so that they could and did lift our national action onto a somewhat moral plane. That is what I desire to see happen again...
...Christian era. . . . The roots of freedom are in the Sermon on the Mount and in the Epistles of St. Paul. . . . Freedom is responsible choice. . . ." It is never a release and always a responsibility. Alongside this axiom of freedom he sets another: Freedom implies an admission that man is imperfect. Perfect men who know all the answers would have the right and duty to rule absolutely. The men who believe they know all the answers in this age are the "rational liberals." Their sense of their absolute right to put these answers into effect at all cost is the moral basis...