Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the securities of his company were soaring to unprecedented heights on the New York Stock Exchange last week (see p. 38), Major Gen. James G. Harbord, president of the Radio Corporation of America, made a speech to some women Republicans in Manhattan. Said he: "The change that will be wrought by radio lies in the fact that though one address goes to an audience of 30,000,000 the contagion of the crowd is gone. The magnetism of the orator cools when transmitted through the microphone. The impassioned gesture swings through unseeing space. The purple period fades in color...
...feat was undertaken to justify the party. But according to the "Nation", such an act as Mr. Borah has made might very possibly give him such a start on the rocky road to the presidency as the famous "Cross of Gold" speech so nearely gave William Jennings Bryan...
Ford Hall Forum, that Sunday evening haven of Boston free speech and Harvard liberals, is threatened with closing. The Baptist Social Union, its main support, is reported to have voted against its continuance. Financial reasons are advanced for the move; but David K. Niles, associate director of the Forum, sees behind this action the shadow of the Blue Menace, which for a decade has been growing more and more potent in this state. Born of the anti-Red agitation immediately after the war, this undemocratic reaction found agents for its platform in a few super-patriotic organizations, and a means...
Newton Diehl Baker, dark, clean-shaven, fond of classics and gardening, eloquent in speech, did lawful battle in a Cincinnati courtroom with Charles Evans Hughes, fair, bushy of beard, fond of animals, deliberate in speech. Mr. Hughes was attorney for Mrs. Josephine Scripps, of Miramar, Calif., who was suing for at least $6,000,000 of the estate of the late E. W. Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers. Mr. Baker was representing the defendant, Robert Paine Scripps, trustee of the estate. In summing up his argument, Mr. Baker quoted at length from King Lear. Mr. Hughes...
...Last week it was Finance Chairman John J. Raskob, guiding financial genius of General Motors, also in a leave-taking ship-news speech, who spoke the word. He was reported as saying that General Motors stock should be selling at $225 a share. It was then selling at $187.25. It shot up to $199, and in two hours of trading the shares of his corporation increased $47,850,000 in value, making an aggregate market value for the company of $3,306,000,000, another record gone. (U.S. Steel's stock is worth...