Science: Radio Politics

William M. Butler, Campaign Manager of President Coolidge, announced that his candidate would not go on the stump, but would campaign by radio from the Capital. The radiocasters threw up their hands in supplication and distraction.

"That makes it unanimous," they cried. "Now they've all said they would do it."

Indeed the radiocasters were in a quandary and the campaign managers had put them there. The entire trouble is that the political managers are not scientists. An official of a large radio company, unnamed, gave out a press statement in which he said: "They are faced with the disappointment right there, for that...

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