Word: raddio
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Even minor details about Al Smith and his campaign-his dudish brown derby, his Sidewalks of New York campaign song, the Bowery touches in his speech ("raddio," "horspital," etc.)-grated on Americans west of the Hudson River, emphasizing for them his alien, big-city background. Kansas' William Allen White, widely heeded editor of the Emporia Gazette, expressed the fears and suspicions of a broad, bipartisan segment of the U.S. when he wrote that the "whole puritan civilization, which has built a sturdy, orderly nation, is threatened by Smith...
Town life raised the Taylors' standard of living. "I've got to git me a raddio," said Paw excitedly one day. "Here Congress has done passed a law to give us WP & A men a raise and I never knowed nothing about it till this morning and they done it yestiddy. Ever'body else on the job knowed it but me." So the radio dealers got out their oldest sets, the second-hand-car dealers got out their oldest junk. All jacked up the prices...
...habit of using another. And as the radio magnifies so many things, it magnifies these mistakes. Some peculiarities in the mouths of celebrated persons have become so famous that the speaker dare not change them without risking the charge of affectation. In this connection, a famous speaker whose "raddio" was a standing subject for witticism, forgot himself (unless my ears and memory have deceived me) and in the heat of a campaign address employed the correct pronunciation. But only momentarily. On the other hand, too close attention to details of pronunciation might have a tendency to detract from the speaker...
...cartoonists had sharp, tangible issues to work with?the Brown Derby,the Noble Experiment, the Church in Poli tics, Raddio, Two Cars in Every Garage?a Chicken in Every Pot. This year the election turns on larger but less concrete issues. At work below the surface are economic forces too abstract and complex for the average cartoonist to depict?the Gold Standard, War Debts, a Balanced Budget, 50¢ wheat, "Pork," "Panic," Credit Inflation, a Change. The Republicans are fighting a defensive battle on a Record that does not lend itself to easy lampooning. Ridicule of the Democratic attack has been...
...first issue of The New Outlook edited by Alfred Emanuel Smith.- Theodore Roosevelt had thundered to the country from this same editorial chair and, before him, Lyman Abbott and Henry Ward Beecher. Now readers cocked ears to a voice it had heard often in the Press and over the "raddio." Introduced briefly by Publisher Frank Aloysius Tichenor, Editor Smith plunged into a three-page editorial opening the magazine as follows: "The New Outlook will check up once a month on what is taking place politically and the reason for it. on what is being done that should not be done...