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The fact that some people laugh out loud at the thought of President Robert Taft is due, to a large degree, to Bob Taft himself. Heretofore, the nation has had only dim and somewhat prejudiced glimpses of him. In the days before Pearl Harbor he was an unpopular isolationist. He...
Padilla. At Cleveland, Mexico's former Foreign Minister, Ezequiel Padilla, noted as an orator in his native language, made his first try (successful) at extempore speaking in English.*He said:
The Gods Depart. The Man of the Year would not be found among the very great. The super-criminals and benevolent dreamers, the movers and shakers of the 1930s and of the war years had died or stepped back toward the shadows. Stalin still had more power than any man...
Pennywise (July). In Portland, Ore., street orator Phillip Baker demanded that police protect his right of free speech, said that every time he opened his mouth a listening drunk tossed in a penny.
"Mostly he spoke extemporaneously (65 minutes). Occasionally he slipped on horn-rimmed spectacles, read a note. I have never seen an orator who held an audience in the palm of his hand so easily and confidently. Soekarno would speak slowly, then at machine-gun pace. Some times he shook a...