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...scene and introduced himself in prodigious basso tones as follows: "If anyone has- any difficulty-in hearing me-in the remotest cor-rners of this hall-do not bla-ame it on Calif-o-ornia-but bla-ame it on Ka-ansas City!" It was great-voiced John L. McNab, San Francisco lawyer, placing his good friend, Herbert Clark Hoover, in nomination for the Presidency of the U. S. Then John L. McNab retired from the national scene...
...busy fact-finding. And the 'President had to admit that there is no one now in his administration either free or capable enough to effect the transfer of the Treasury's enforcement bureau to the Department of Justice. So he called again for great-voiced John McNab...
...McNab will be a sub-sub-committee of one, appended to a sub-committee of the Wickersham Commission. Besides reorganizing executive forces, he will study the notorious delays of Federal Court procedure. When his findings are ready perhaps his great voice will intone: "If anyone has any difficulty in hearing me in the remotest corners of this nation, do not blame it on Calif-o-ornia, but bla-ame it on Washington...
With an oratorical toss of the head, the tall, ministerial figure stepped back from the lectern like one whose duty is, for the moment, done. That was John L. McNab's idea of how to introduce his Palo Alto, Calif., neighbor to the country...
...radio was going. Shortly after the monstrous voice of John L. McNab was heard, at about eight o'clock, the radio sounded as if it had broken. It began to roar, hum, shriek, blare, clatter. The Beaver Man's name had been placed before the convention...