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...
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