Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Elmer E. Nyberg, who teaches public speaking at New York University, revised and enlarged his ratings for public speakers as of 1940: grade C-Cordell Hull, Paul V. McNutt ("an orator, not a public speaker"), Robert A. Taft; Grade B plus-Arthur H. Vandenberg (too harsh) and Thomas E. Dewey; Grade A minus-Franklin D. Roosevelt (A plus until he "started to scold"); Grade A plus -Herbert Hoover (Grade...
Week after week columnists gave loud hushes, hinted that the next crashing sound would come from the Treasury's income-tax investigation of Indiana's famed Two-Per-Cent Club. One U. S. magazine after another searingly profiled Mr. McNutt, as with blowtorches. Dry-tongued Alva Johnston smilingly cut Mr. McNutt's throat from ear to ear in last week's Saturday Evening Post...
Forthright Columnist Raymond Clapper lifted a lonely voice against Mr. McNutt's taking off: "Underground scandal of Washington . . . slow-motion assassination . . . major campaign atrocity . . . torture . . . poison-gas rumors . . . [Treasury] investigation about as secret as Mr. Roosevelt's celebrated cigaret-holder . . . crucifying...
During the week an Indianapolis Federal grand jury was dismissed without acting on Mr. McNutt's income taxes. Still Treasury snoops prowled...
Public sympathy for much-enduring Mr. McNutt seemed curiously apathetic. Possible explanation: plain citizens may feel that a man who has trained as publicly for the Presidency as Mr. McNutt has done all his life is fair game...